Samarra Archaeological City is the site of a powerful Islamic capital city that ruled over the provinces of the Abbasid Empire extending from Tunisia to Central Asia for a century. Located on both ...

With help from the U.N. and the Iraqi prime minister's office, workers are rebuilding the sacred Shiite site ... Samarra's economic fortunes; and narrow Iraq's sectarian rift. "Rebuilding a Shia ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN)-- Coalition troops killed the al Qaeda terrorist who masterminded the February 2006 attack on Samarra's al-Askariya mosque and set off continuing violence and reprisal killings ...