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Women banned from Baghdad shrine
Iraqi authorities close a major Shia shrine in Baghdad to women amid security concerns as the rite of Ashura reaches its climax.

FEATURES, VIEWS, ANALYSIS
Sir Stanley Maude's mausoleum History lesson
Echoes of an earlier British campaign in Mesopotamia
Mohammed al-Kinana holds a picture of his son, who died in the shooting Bitter anger
Relatives of Iraqis shot by Blackwater want answers
Unidentified Iraqi interpreter in file image from January 2006 Concealed ID
US reverses ban on Iraqi interpreters wearing masks

CORRESPONDENTS' REPORTS

Iraqi forces get set for control
King Abdullah's symbolic Iraq visit
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Iraq dilemma over US troops
Kurdish novel re-writes rules
BACKGROUND AND ANALYSIS

Profile: General Odierno
Profile: General Petraeus
How Iran pulls the strings
Doubts cast on Iraqi forces
The financial cost of war
LIFE IN IRAQ
Ali plays his trumpet at a traditional Iraqi wedding Iraq profiles: Wedding musician

Iraq profiles: Social worker
Vet Iraq profiles: Baghdad zoo vet

Iraq profiles: Painter


FEATURES, VIEWS, ANALYSIS
Statue of Saddam Hussein being pulled down, April 2003 After Saddam
How events have unfolded since the fall of Saddam
Child crying Story of the war
Defining images, audio and video from the war in Iraq
hand holds dogtags Fight for peace
Newsbeat report on US veteran's anti-war campaign

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