Sentence examples for shrine area from inspiring English sources

But insurgents continued firing mortar shells and rocket-propelled grenades at the occupied mosque from the shrine area, including from a second-floor window in the Shrine of Hussein.

Insurgents with rocket-propelled grenades were holed up in a school northeast of the shrine area.

Police believe the first bomb may have been attached to a motorbike parked outside the entrance to the shrine area.

Colonel Bishop said he did not intend to send American forces into the shrine area in the near future.

They seemed confident that the Americans would not attack them if they stayed in the shrine area.

The attack came after American commanders said members of the same militia in Karbala had left the shrine area in that city's center.

American commanders have declared the shrines "restricted areas" and prevented soldiers from directly attacking insurgents there.

Both the shrine and the area surrounding it are hugely significant in the religious, social and politicial life of the country.

In one of the most spectacular rituals, the Twarij run, thousands dashed two miles to the shrine from an area outside the city center, to symbolize their rush to heed Imam Hussein's last cries for help in battle.

That afternoon, another squad from Granados's platoon, led by Sgt. Samuel Windisch, conducted its first foot patrol in Kajaki, north and west from the Shrine, into an area called the brown zone, where lawless Zamindawar abuts the territory controlled by the Marines.

Lastly, be sure to see Dante's Tomb: the great poet is buried here, in a small shrine in an area where silence is golden.