Concrete walls put up to protect Samarra’s famed golden dome shrine now creates divide

SAMARRA, Iraq — The U.S. military on Tuesday handed over the last of its bases outside Samarra, a city billed as a reconciliation success story. Worries linger though that wartime remedies like barriers and checkpoints will encourage divisions and undermine hard-won security gains.

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