In news from Iraq, there are new doubts about the U.S. and Iraqi claim hundreds of people killed in a battle in Najaf were members of a messianic cult. London Independent correspondent Patrick ...

If militia members in Najaf, Iraq, saw locals giving information or talking with coalition soldiers, bad things could happen. Members of the Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's militia would threaten ...

BAGHDAD, Oct 8 (Reuters) - The Iraqi government on Monday released video confessions from followers of a Shi'ite cult arrested after a major battle with U.S. and Iraqi forces in January near the holy ...

~ Officials were unclear about the religious affiliation of the militants. BAGHDAD, Iraq -- U.S.-backed Iraqi troops Sunday attacked insurgents allegedly plotting to kill pilgrims at a major Shiite ...

Jan. 29, 2007 — -- Iraqi and American forces last weekend engaged in a lengthy and fierce battle with a violent Iraqi cult that was planning to conduct a large-scale attack that would coincide ...

BAGHDAD, Aug. 2 -- In an agreement brokered by the top Shiite Muslim religious figure in Iraq, rebellious cleric Moqtada Sadr agreed Thursday night to withdraw his militia from a contested shrine and ...

BEIRUT (AP) -- Declassified 1970s-era U.S. spy satellite imagery has led a British-Iraqi archeological team to what they believe is the site of a seventh-century battle that became decisive in the ...