2003-04-17 04:00:00 PDT Baghdad-- With a revolver on his hip, a swagger in his walk and a dozen bodyguards carrying rifles, Ali Al-Shawki doesn't seem like your average imam. But in the past week ...

The bomb, which also wounded more than 140, detonated outside the Imam Ali mosque as Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim emerged after a delivering a sermon calling for Iraqi unity. The attack was ...

Toll tops 90 in Shiite stronghold of Najaf. Fingers are pointed at Hussein loyalists -- and at the coalition for not providing protection.

The mosque is among the most sacred sites in Shiite Islam. “The coalition forces had no involvement in the damage to the Imam Ali mosque,” said Army Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, the top military ...

Inside Najaf’s Imam Ali mosque "We will do anything to stop the Americans. They have sex and drinking and other things, and we don't want this." ...

U.S. forces in the central city of Najaf have reportedly come under Iraqi fire from the Ali Mosque, one of the most sacred Shiite Muslim sites in the world.

NAJAF, Iraq -- A car bomb ripped through a crowd of worshippers leaving Iraq's holiest Shiite shrine after Friday prayers, killing at least 85 people -- including a top cleric -- in the deadliest ...

At first the Iraqi police — actually the Americans — said the Imam Ali Mosque bombing was the work of al-Qaeda. ... Thomas Fuentes, dubbed the FBI’s top agent in Iraq, ...

The Najaf bombing occurred at about 10:30 a.m. in a market packed with pilgrims and shoppers in front of the Imam Ali mosque, which contains the tomb of Prophet Muhammad's son-in-law, Ali.

), also known as Masjid Ali or the Mosque of 'Alī, located in Najaf, Iraq, is the third holiest site for some of the estimated 200 million followers of the Shia branch of Islam. 'Alī ibn Abī ...