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 ...

In Basra, police said militiamen broke into ... President Bush pledged American aid to restore the mosque. "The terrorists in Iraq have again proven that they are enemies of all faiths and of ...

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