Kerry was referring to the events of Feb. 22, 2006, when members of al-Qaeda in Iraq, a group that later morphed into ISIS, infiltrated Samarra’s al-Askari mosque.

10 The Al-Askari Mosque on June 13 (Fars) - According to Shi'ite tradition, Imam al-Mahdi, the son of Hasan al-Askari, descended into a cellar under the present-day shrine and disappeared.

Al Jazeera’s Omar al-Saleh reports from Samarra, Iraq on joint Shia-Sunni efforts to rebuild the revered al-Askari Shrine and mosque. At 6:55am on February 22, 2006, two explosions tore through ...

June 13, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- Sunni insurgents have once again attacked the Al-Askari (Golden) Mosque in an apparent attempt to goad Shi'a into launching retalitory actions.

Abu Qudama confessed to taking part in the attack on al-Askari mosque in Samarra on Feb. 22 and gave a detailed account of how the attack took place, al-Rubaie said.

Early on the morning of Feb. 22, 2006, gunmen slipped into the Al-Askari Mosque, tied up the guards and set the explosives that destroyed the dome.

In 2007, there was a second attack on the al-Askari Mosque, that toppled it minarets. The U.S. military and the Iraqi government decided to lock Samarra down.

Imam Hassan al-Askari (AS) Mosque was founded more than 1180 years ago. It was established near the holy shrine of Hazrat Fatemeh Masumeh (AS) in Qom upon the order of Imam Hassan al-Askari (AS) ...

Following the bombing of the Al Askari Mosque Feb. 22, 2006, U.S. and Iraqi Security Forces implemented enhanced security measures to protect the mosque and the Shia pilgrims who visit each year.

BAGHDAD-- A car bomb killed eight pilgrims Thursday on the road to one of Iraq's holiest Shiite shrines, a highly sensitive site still being rebuilt after a 2006 attack that sheered off its ...

The Al Askari mosque is one of the holiest sites for Shiites; I knew immediately that people were going to be enraged. Although Samarra is a distance north from Manathera, my immediate concern was ...

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