Iraqi police say an explosion has damaged one of the most important Islamic architectural monuments. The spiral minaret, in the town of Samarra, is more than 1,000 years old. Police say insurgents ...

Iskhaki - An improvised bomb hit an American convoy early on Tuesday on the main road into the troubled Iraqi town of Samarra, the scene of deadly clashes between troops and insurgents two days ...

US and Iraqi forces have carried out a major offensive in the northern Iraqi town of Samarra to try to retake control from insurgents. US troops say around 109 militants were killed, but doctors at ...

Is that in fact the case? Mr. LASSITER: Samarra is a town that is, you know, the U.S. military has surrounded it with a dirt wall. The town has lost more than half its population during the past ...

A US-led offensive has killed 94 insurgents and wounded one in the Iraqi rebel town of Samarra, a US military spokesman said. "The latest numbers have gone up. We have an estimated 94 fatalities ...

Security sources also told Reuters that the Iraqi troops attacked an ISIS group formation in the town of al-Mutasim, 22 km southeast of Samarra, driving militants out into the surrounding desert ...

The blast occurred after US forces had used loudhailers to warn Samarra residents to stay indoors. A series of car-bomb attacks and clashes between US and Iraq troops and fighters in the town ...

Six months ago, following the accidental shooting by US troops of unarmed wedding guests in the central Iraqi town of Samarra, locals were upset but willing to give coalition forces a chance at making ...

An Iraqi 17-year-old girl ... a farming town north of Baghdad, killing one guardsmen and wounding two. Desperate to end the unrest, US and Iraqi troops stormed the Sunni bastion of Samarra at ...

I did see the bodies of people who looked to be civilians, you know, an old man, a middle-aged ... I think by and large Samarra is a very hostile town. I mean, I could feel it when I went there.

"No one knows the town better than we do, we're gonna clean this place. They've made a mistake to attack U.S. forces. We will dominate Samarra," he ... and a one-year-old baby was cut by glass.