WWNO: In Iraq's Sacred City Of Najaf, Clerics Call On Shiites To Fight
1 of 4 — Iraqi Shiite volunteers with the Labayk ya Hussein Brigade take part in a training session in the holy city of Najaf in late June. Clerics in the city called for Shiites to step forward and ...
In Iraq's Sacred City Of Najaf, Clerics Call On Shiites To Fight
Los Angeles Times: Killings of Shiite Clerics Set Holy City of Najaf on Edge
The southern Iraqi city of Najaf is the center of the Shiite Muslim faith — the sect's equivalent of the Vatican. About a million pilgrims from Iraq and abroad go to Najaf every year to worship in its ...
Los Angeles Times: Moderates in Retreat in Najaf as Fear Echoes Across the City
NAJAF, Iraq — Shops have been shuttered and few of this holy city’s genteel residents are venturing out this week as armed young men, clad in black, their faces half-hidden by head scarves, stream ...
NAJAF, Iraq -- The city's first airport is weeks away from opening, but already a bigger one is talked about. Land prices are soaring. Merchants say they don't remember business ever being so good.
Northcountrypublicradio.org: In Iraq's Sacred City Of Najaf, Clerics Call On Shiites To Fight
NAJAF, Iraq -- Three bombs exploded in quick succession after sunset Thursday, Jan. 14, in the southern holy city of Najaf, killing up to 25 people and wounding scores of others, Iraqi Interior ...
U.S.-backed Iraqi troops killed more than 200 insurgents from a religious cult in a weekend battle near the Shiite holy city of Najaf, Iraqi officials said Monday. A Los Angeles Times reporter in ...