Viewed from the rooftop of a nearby building, the men restoring Al-Askari Mosque in Samarra are mere specks, working at a Herculean task. The once majestic golden dome that terrorists destroyed ...

Another Sunni mosque in the Basra area of southern Iraq was destroyed Saturday, as militant Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called on his ...

Wednesday's attack hit Samarra's Askariya shrine, also known as the Golden Mosque. The mosque holds the tombs of two revered 9th-century imams of the Shiite branch of Islam, including Hassan al ...

SAMARRA, Iraq (AP) – Insurgents posing as police destroyed the golden dome of one of Iraq’s holiest Shiite shrines Wednesday, setting off an unprecendented spasm of sectarian violence. Angry crowds ...

The 22 February bombing of the Golden Mosque in Samarra, one of Shi'ite Islam's most holy sites, has profoudly shaken Iraq's sensitive Shi'ite-Sunni fault line. Political leaders from across the ...

SAMARA, Iraq, Feb. 17 (UPI) -- Iraqi engineers say crews will be working around the clock to rebuild the landmark Golden Mosque, which was destroyed by a bomb in 2006. Iraq is spending about $60 ...

The Askariya Shrine, or Golden Mosque, in Samarra is among Iraq’s most sacred sites for Shiite Muslims. Its famous towering golden dome was destroyed in a bombing last year blamed on Sunni Arab ...

Remembering Iraq's refugeesThe bombing of the Golden Mosque in Samarra, one of Shiite Islam’s holiest shrines, ushered in one of the bloodiest episodes of the Iraq war. After its gilded dome was ...

The Golden Mosque is one of the holiest Shiite sites in Iraq. Its destruction provoked retaliatory attacks against Sunni mosques and imams, and restoring order and imposing restraint will be a ...

The Golden Mosque contains the tombs of two revered 9th-century imams of the Shiite branch of Islam, including Hassan al-Askari, father of the "hidden imam," Muhammad al-Mahdi.