Thousands of Iraqis have responded to a call by the country's most influential Shi'ite cleric to take up arms against a Sunni Muslim insurgency.
Around 800 Shi'ite men left the southern city of Basra on Sunday, heading to Baghdad for training to join the Iraqi army.
Local religious leaders encouraged them as they left.
The volunteers are facing danger even before they start fighting, with reports of a deadly mortar strike at a recruitment centre in central Iraq.
One of those gathered near a...
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