A car bomb exploded Friday at a mosque in the Iraqi holy city of Najaf. Gwen Ifill discusses the repercussions of the bombing with Hamid Dabashi. Yitzhak Nakash and Juan Cole. The bombing at ...

Sadr agreed early Friday to order his Al Mahdi militia to leave the mosque as part of an agreement brokered by Sistani to end the combat in Najaf’s ordinarily tranquil Old City district.

NAJAF, Iraq — Supporters of cleric Muqtada Sadr remained in control of the Imam Ali Mosque on Saturday as negotiations continued over terms for handing the shrine over to Grand Ayatollah Ali ...

Even yesterday's prayers were tailored to extol Sadr. There was no sign at the mosque of Sadr -- whose house in another part of Najaf was raided by U.S. forces yesterday. He has not been seen ...

and the accompanying message on the Shah-E-Najaf Mosque clearly constitute a hate crime. The organization said it is not the first time the mosque has been targeted. Islamophobic material was ...

Muqtada's father, Muhammad Sadeq al-Sadr, once bravely delivered political speeches before Friday prayers at the Kufa Mosque outside Najaf, demanding religious freedom and the release of Shiite ...

Thousands of U.S. troops were taking part in the operation, which began with the cordoning off of the revered Imam Ali mosque, its vast cemetery and Najaf’s Old City. It was unclear whether the ...

On April 5 he entered Najaf, the third holiest city in Islam ... A week later Sayyid Majid and a fellow cleric were stabbed and hacked to death in the Imam Ali mosque. A spokesman for the al-Khoei ...

The Mosque of Najaf Najaf, one of the two holy cities for Iraq's Shia Muslims, has been the scene of fighting between U.S. and Iraqi forces. It dates to the eighth century and is said to contain ...

New York Times reporter Neil MacFarquhar reports from Najaf, Iraq following a deadly bombing that killed 75 people, including leading Shiite Muslim leader Mohammed Bakr al-Hakim. First ...