KUFA, Iraq -- Efforts to avoid a clash between U.S. troops and the rebel Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr appeared to be at an end Friday, with al-Sadr angrily vowing from the pulpit to fight to the ...

A suicide car bomber struck amid a crowd of laborers across from a major Shiite shrine in southern Iraq on Tuesday, killing at least 53 people and wounding 105, officials and witnesses said as the ...

KUFA, Iraq – Blood and shrapnel covered the grounds of the ancient Kufa (search) mosque compound Thursday after at least two mortar blasts ripped through a crowd of Iraqis gathered to march to the ...

KUFA, Iraq, June 2 -- The shaky week-old cease-fire in southern Iraq broke down completely Wednesday with heavy fighting on the streets of Kufa, where U.S. troops pursued Shiite Muslim insurgents, ...

A car bomb tore through a busy market in the Shiite holy city of Kufa on Tuesday, killing at least 16 people and wounding 70 in an attack sure to further enflame tensions between Iraq’s Sunni and ...

KUFA, Iraq — Explosions at the main mosque in the city of Kufa killed 25 people and wounded 60 today, hospital officials and witnesses said. Thousands of people were crowded around the mosque at the ...

“For two reasons, we welcome such cooperation with open arms. First, as an example of good neighborliness, and second, we may gain from Kufa's development, as it is a destination for Iranian pilgrims ...

A mortar attack targeted a huge gathering around the main mosque on Kufa on Thursday. The second struck at thousands marching towards Najaf, where resistance fighters loyal to Shia leader Muqtada ...

KUFA, Iraq (CNN) -- U.S. soldiers killed 16 suspected insurgents early Sunday and found a large cache of weapons at a mosque during an operation in the city of Kufa, a stronghold of radical Shiite ...