Sentence examples for najaf where from inspiring English sources

In Najaf, where Ayatollah Khomeini studied with his Hizbullah classmates, American marines now take crash courses in the local faith.

He lived in the holy Shia city, Najaf, where the local clergy were wary of the turbulent mullah from Qom.

That year, Sadr was forcibly removed from Basra and driven to Najaf where he was executed.

Though the Americans clamped down on the rebellion, Mr. Sadr had managed to maintain his grip on three towns: Karbala; the nearby holy city of Najaf, where he lives; and Kufa, a town adjacent to Najaf where Mr. Sadr preaches.

One American marine and several insurgents were killed in Najaf, where marines fought alongside Iraqi policemen and National Guard troops.

A huge mosque has been built around the shrine in Najaf, where tradition holds that he was buried.

Shariat-Madari studied in Al-Najaf, Iraq (where he read under the most prominent Shīʿite scholars of the day), and then in Qom, Iran, where he met Khomeini.

Sometimes it will be like what you see in Basra or Najaf or Nasiriya where we want to attack a specific regime location where a meeting is ongoing and kill everyone that's in the meeting.

But the moderate Shiite leaders also warned the Americans against attacking Najaf and Karbala, where, they said, a misstep could turn the country's Shiites decisively against them.

It's harder to be a smart aleck about the future, especially in regards to Najaf and Falluja, where none of the choices are good ones.

Many of Iran's leading clerics studied in Iraq at the seminaries in Najaf and Karbala, where senior religious leaders were assassinated, exiled or otherwise heavily repressed by the Hussein government.