Whitehurst concluded by saying "the progress and security that has come to Samarra is a direct result of the cooperation and partnership of the Samarran people.

SAMARRA, Iraq: A few days after insurgents killed two of his bodyguards, Asaad Ali Yaseen sat in his living room with a pistol beside him and pondered the challenges of running this city. As if on … ...

But it creates a lot of tension in places like Samarra, because it's you know, a heavily tribal area that does not look well on outsiders. It's also a place where there's no shortage of insurgents.

BELPRE, Ohio (WTAP) - Samarra Wolfe is this week’s Academic Achiever. Samarra is a senior at Belpre High School with a 4.0 GPA. She is currently taking Intro to Film, Intro to Sociology, PC ...

The Samarra Operations Center, the command that oversees all Iraqi Security Forces in Samarra and much of southern Salah ad Din, developed the plan to leave T-walls around the mosque in place ...

BAGHDAD — The Iraqi government plans to establish a military unit to safeguard efforts in Samarra to rebuild one of Shiite Islam’s most important shrines, a move criticized by Sunni Arabs as ...

Troops Battle to Control Samarra With Americans Leading Way, Iraqi Forces Secure Key Religious Sites October 2, 2004 More than 20 years ago Summary By Karl Vick ...

In Samarra, the Sunni city that was the site of the 2006 Golden Mosque bombing (and which still houses the 1,255-year old Great Samarran Mosque, formerly the largest such structure in the world ...

A U.S. soldier from the 4th Infantry Division was killed Tuesday near Samarra, the site of weekend fighting between American troops and guerrillas, the military said. The latest death came as a ...

SAMARRA, Iraq – U.S. troops smashed down workshop doors and junkyard gates with sledgehammers, crowbars, explosives and even armored vehicles in a massive raid to hunt for pro-Saddam Hussein ...

Late yesterday, our chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan filed a stirring Reporter's Notebook, on the aftermath of the attack on the Shiite shrine in Samarra: The night is dark over Baghdad as I ...