American troops clashed yesterday with Shiite militants in fighting that persists six days after a truce was supposed to have taken effect. At least five Iraqis were killed and nearly 40 others were ...

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, July 18: A suicide bomber killed 59 people in a crowded Iraqi market on Tuesday after luring day labourers aboard his minivan with an offer of casual work. The blast in Kufa, near Najaf, was one ...

The small trading community of Dawoodi Bohras single-handedly rebuilt one of Islam’s holiest places of worship — the Great Mosque at Kufa in strife-torn Iraq. The mosque marks the place where Imam Ali ...

At least five American soldiers died in Iraq during a 24-hour period that began Sunday, two of them fighting insurgents in the holy city of Kufa during the unraveling of a cease-fire agreement with a ...

Two U.S. soldiers and several dozen Iraqi militiamen are dead after overnight gun battles in the Iraqi city of Kufa. The continuing fighting in Kufa and in the nearby city of Najaf threaten last ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq, Monday, May 31 — A cease-fire between American forces and insurgents loyal to a rebel cleric appeared to be unraveling as fighting erupted Sunday and early Monday in the centers of the ...