after the mosques of Medina, Basra and Kufa. Next to the mosque stands a group of churches and monasteries where Jesus and the Virgin Mary passed during their trip to Egypt, as well as the Jewish ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr offered Thursday to help purge Iraqi security forces of militia members. But he also criticized the Iraqi government for denying that it sent ...

Angry crowds went to the streets, armed men attacked Sunni mosques, and over 100 people were killed since the bombing, police said Thursday. In Basra, police said militiamen broke into a prison ...