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  • Iraq seeing more violence Iraq seeing more violence

    Violence has erupted in many areas of Iraq. On Saturday morning eight people, including a police officer, his wife and children, were killed by gunmen who also kidnapped ten security force personnel in the Rashid area, south of Baghdad. The gunmen first broke into the home of the local administrator, killing one of his guards. They then moved on to the nearby house of Captain Adnan ...

  • Bomb blasts in Iraq kill scores of people Bomb blasts in Iraq kill scores of people

    BAGHDAD - Scores of people were killed in Iraq Friday, in a day marked by several bombings including two outside a Sunni Muslim mosque in the Iraqi city of Baquba after Friday prayers, killing at least 43 worshipers in one of the deadliest attacks in a month-long surge in sectarian violence. One bomb exploded as worshippers were departing the Saria mosque in the city of Baquba while a second ...

  • 15 killed 57 wounded in bombings in Baghdad

    Beijing, May 18 (Xinhua-ANI): At least 15 people were killed and 57 others wounded in three roadside bomb attacks on Friday in Iraq 's capital city of Baghdad, a police source said. A roadside bomb exploded in the Amiriya district in western Baghdad, killing 12 people and wounding 32 others, the police source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. Another roadside bomb in the Doraa district in ...

  • 73 killed 148 injured in Iraq attacks

    A wave of bombing attacks struck war-torn Iraq Friday, leaving as many as 73 people dead and 148 injured, police and officials said. At least 41 people were killed and 56 injured in two blasts, which hit almost simultaneously in Baquba, capital city of Diyala province, after the Friday prayer, reported Xinhua citing the city's mayor Abdullah Hayali. The two roadside bombs exploded near the ...

  • Bombs Targeting Iraqi Sunnis Kill 70

    A series of bomb attacks has targeted Sunnis in Iraq, killing 70 people and increasing fears of renewed sectarian conflict. The deadliest blast Friday struck Sunni worshippers who were leaving a mosque in Baquba, just north of Baghdad, and was followed by a second explosion as people gathered to help the wounded. At least 41 people were killed in the twin bombings. Later in the day, a ...

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  • 43 killed 70 injured in Iraq bombings

    As many as 43 people were killed and 70 injured in bomb blasts that occurred in different parts of Iraq Friday. At least eight people were killed and 25 wounded in a roadside bomb blast which took place during a funeral in Madain town, some 30 km from capital city of Baghdad, reported Xinhua citing a interior ministry source. Earlier in the day, some 35 people were killed and 45 injured in ...

  • Iraq on the brink as sectarian strife grows

    BAGHDAD // Fears of a civil war in Iraq grew yesterday after gunmen killed a police officer and his family in Baghdad and a Sunni imam in the Shiite-majority south. Yesterday's attacks, in which two soldiers were also killed and eight police officers kidnapped, followed three days of bombings and other violence that killed 130 people. A market, a mosque and bus stops in both Shiite and ...

  • Thirteen killed 10 police kidnapped in Iraq violence

    RAMADI, Iraq (Reuters) - Suspected Sunni Muslim militants killed four state-backed Sunni fighters in Iraq on Saturday, security sources said, apparently viewing them as collaborators with the Shi'ite-led government of a nation plagued by sectarian ...

  • Attacks kill 16 people in Iraq 8 policemen kidnapped on road to Syrian Jordanian border

    Iraqis gather at the scene of a bomb attack in Baqouba, northeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, May 17, 2013. A bomb killed dozens of people at a Sunni mosque in central Iraq, hitting worshippers as they were emerging from Friday prayers, security officials said. The attack in Baqouba comes after two days of attacks, many in Shiite districts, left tens of people dead. Attacks against Sunni mosques ...

  • Iraq 10 policemen kidnapped west of Baghdad amid clashes

    Suspected Sunni militants abducted the 10 policemen on a desert road near Ramadi, one of the main centers of the Sunni protest movement in ...

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