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Letter from Samarra: At Iraq's Ground Zero, too, ... Restoring Iraq's Golden Mosque in Samarra. Published Aug 24, 2008 at 8:00 PM EDT Updated Jul 01, 2010 at 1:41 PM EDT. By Newsweek Staff .
Gunman Wounds 3 at Iraq Mosque. Attacks Expose Sunni-Shiite ... Sept. 5 -- Dawn prayers at the Qabaa mosque in the working-class Shaab district had just ended today when gunfire broke the morning ...
Kerry was referring to the events of Feb. 22, 2006, when members of al-Qaeda in Iraq, a group that later morphed into ISIS, infiltrated Samarra’s al-Askari mosque.
Iraq's military said ISIS destroyed the 12th century al-Nuri mosque in Mosul's Old City, where ISIS fighters remain. Iraq's prime minister called it "a formal declaration of their defeat." ...
After eight months of grinding urban warfare, Iraqi government troops on Thursday captured the ruined mosque at the heart of ...
BAGHDAD, Sept. 16 -- -- A suicide car bomber blew himself up outside a Shiite mosque in northern Iraq after Friday prayers, killing 11 people and wounding more than 20 others, the latest deadly ...
The Iraqi military announced Thursday that it has regained control of the historic Grand al-Nuri Mosque from ISIS, claiming its 'fictitious state has fallen.' ...
The demolition on Friday of a 300-year-old minaret of a mosque in Iraq's southern city of Basra to make way for road expansion has enraged locals, religious and cultural authorities who condemned ...
BAGHDAD-- Iraq's prime minister on Thursday ordered an investigation into overnight explosions that tore through a mosque in Baghdad as officials raised the casualty toll to 18 dead and 38 wounded.
BASRA, Iraq July 16 (Reuters) - The demolition on Friday of a 300-year-old minaret of a mosque in Iraq's southern city of Basra to make way for road expansion has enraged locals, religious and ...