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On Friday (Feb 13th) , two cars blocked a bus carrying pilgrims from Baghdad to a key Shia shrine in the northern, mainly Sunni, city of Samarra. Seven gunmen opened fire, killing five and wounding six of the pilgrims in the attack at around 5 a.m. (10 p.m EDT on …

Shia Rights Watch strongly condemn the explosion targeting Shia in Iraq  and ask the government to pay more attention to the Iraq situation, knowing that the country with majority of Shia cannot be unsafe like this. Foreign country do all they can to make the Shia live in fear in …

Simultaneous early morning attacks on Shia targets across Iraq kill at least 60 Shia and wounded dozens At least 32 people were killed in blasts in Baghdad where 10 explosions tore through mainly Shi’ite neighborhoods during rush hour and other attacks targeted police patrols, commuters and crowds gathered in shopping …

BAGHDAD— A suicide bomber detonated an explosive-packed car near a funeral procession in southeastern Baghdad on Friday, killing at least 32 Shia — half of them policemen who were guarding the march — in the latest brazen attack since the U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq. Police officials said the blast …

BAGHDAD — A series of explosions in Shia neighborhoods killed nine Shia and wounded dozens more on Tuesday (1-24-2012), the latest in a wave of sectarian attacks. During the past month, insurgents have increased their attacks against Shia’s, including pilgrims marching to a shrine in southern Iraq for one of …

A wave of explosions struck two Shia neighborhoods in Baghdad, killing at least 36 Shia. The attacks began with the explosion of a bomb attached to a motorcycle near a bus stop where day laborers gather to look for work in the Sadr city neighborhood. One of those who witnessed …

Ziad Tariq, spokesperson for the Iraqi health ministry, said total of 205 Shia were killed and injured in 10 bombing attacks that rocked nine neighborhoods of the capital on Thursday morning. The attacks were carried out in the Allawi, Bab al-Muatham and Karrada districts of central Baghdad, the Adhamiyah, Shuala …

Four explosions have rocked the Iraqi city of Karbala, around 118km south of the capital Baghdad, leaving at least 30 people dead and 66 more wounded, sources say. The back-to-back explosions occurred on Sunday outside a governmental building and damaged many cars, police officials say. The first blast tore though a crowd …