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Top Shiite cleric returns home amid Najaf crisis
Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani returns from London to Iraq with a peace plan urging nationwide restraint as Najaf battles continue. U S airstrikes persist in the Old City while clashes and attacks kill civilians in Najaf and nearby Kufa, including a deadly mortar strike. The Divine Wrath Brigades claim to have kidnapped the defense minister's brother-in-law amid ongoing turmoil.
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Najae
Iraq
Najaf
Britain
Ayatollah
Ali Husseini Al-Sistani
London
al-Sistani
Muqtada al-Sadr
U.S
Kufa
Hazem Shaalan
Al-Jazeera Television
Divine Wrath Brigades
Salah Hassan Lami
Shaalan
Defense Ministry
Al-Jazeera
Imam Ali
al-Sadr