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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Gunmen dressed as Iraqi police commandos attacked a Sunni mosque in a western Baghdad neighborhood late Saturday, killing three mosque guards and wounding six others in an ...

Mosques had minarets which are thin towers with balconies. Doors and windows were often designed as arches. The River Tigris in Baghdad was used for trade, travel and irrigation (watering crops).

In addition to the shrine, two Sunni mosques were attacked late Friday in southwest Baghdad by a "large number of men" wielding a variety of weapons, including rocket-propelled grenades ...