"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.

A month-old wing at the local hospital, funded by the United Nations, offers top-drawer emergency and surgical care. Samarra Mayor Mahmood ... district are a ghost town. The Americans have placed ...

Half of the population of Samarra fled, leaving a crumbling ghost town. Now, the Shiite mosque ... We don't want to remember Saddam's days as the good old days. You guys claim there is democracy ...

The modern town of Samarra lies on the bank of the river Tigris ... he left a five-year-old son called Muhammad as his designated successor. The designated site is of great significance to ...

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.

Max Becherer / Polaris Images I'm standing on a street corner in the center of Samarra—a strife-scarred ... gold-tile dome atop the thousand-year-old Shiite shrine, igniting a spasm of sectarian ...

The spiral minaret, in the town of Samarra, is more than 1,000 years old. Police say insurgents blew up the top section of the 52m (162ft) Malwiya tower, which had been used by US soldiers as a ...

Samarra is a predominantly Sunni town, and the Sunni religious establishment ... Sahid Abbas al-Bouibra(ph), a 43-year old businessman, asked why there were so few guards. Mr. SAHID ABBAS AL ...

Brannon, a soft-spoken 34-year-old from Boaz, Ala., continued: "Every new unit that comes in has these tribal sheik meetings where all these sheiks say, yeah, we want to help clean up Samarra ...

‘All the people in town today are asking for revenge ... the US forces have aroused the outrage of Samarra’s population, under the old regime a hotbed of anti-Hussein sentiment.