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  • Over 60 killed in Iraq terror attacks Over 60 killed in Iraq terror attacks

    BAGHDAD, Iraq - More than 60 people, including Iranian Shia pilgrims, were killed in a series of car bombings and shootings across Iraq Monday, officials said. The worst hit in Monday's violence was Baghdad where eight car bombs and a roadside bomb ripped through bus stops, marketplaces and other crowded areas in Shia neighbourhoods. The attacks left 12 people dead and 109 wounded, a senior ...

  • Wave of Attacks Kills At Least 76 in Iraq

    A wave of car bombings and suicide attacks against Shi'ite Muslims ripped through Iraqi cities Monday, killing at least 76 people and wounding scores more, extending the worst sectarian violence since U.S. troops withdrew from the country in December 2011. The attacks increased the number of Iraqis killed in sectarian clashes over the past week to more than 200, including 70 who died Friday ...

  • 61 killed in Iraq attacks

    A series of car bombings and shootings, mainly targeting Shia Muslim areas across Iraq, Monday killed at least 61 people, including Iranian pilgrims, and wounded around 200 others, officials said. The worst violence occurred in Baghdad, when eight car bombs and a roadside bomb ripped through bus stops, marketplaces and other crowded areas in Shia neighbourhoods in the capital city, killing 12 ...

  • 22 killed in nine car bombings in Iraq

    At least 22 people were killed and more than 130 others injured in a string of nine car bombings Monday in the Iraqi capital and in the southern oil hub of Basra, police said. Two car bombs went off almost simultaneously in Basra, 550 km south of Baghdad, killing at least 11 people and wounding 35 others, police told Xinhua. In Baghdad, seven car bombs ripped through different parts of the ...

  • Ten Years After US Invades Iraq Israel Eager to Take the US Into Round Two

    Ten years after the US invaded Iraq in 2003, another Middle East war looms large between the West and Muslim states. Signs point to the strong possibility that Israel, and its US Zionist supporters, remain determined, first, to draw the US into the Syrian Civil War, and second, to lead Israel in a joint attack against Iran. All from the skies, of course. Boots on the ground have not served ...

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The House by the Cemetery (Quella villa accanto al cimitero) [Blu-Ray]

The House by the Cemetery (Quella villa accanto al cimitero) [Blu-Ray]

Lucio Fulcis The House by the Cemetery (Quella villa accanto al cimitero) was released near the end of a particularly prolific period for the Italian director, who had, after several decades of directing projects in a wide variety of genres including co ... ...

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  • 12 kidnapped policemen killed in western Iraq

    Twelve kidnapped policemen were killed and four were wounded in overnight clashes between the abductors and the Iraqi security forces in Anbar province, a provincial police source said on Monday.The Iraqi army and police forces carried out a joint operation on Sunday night in the desert area between Baghdad and Jordan to free kidnapped policemen, and the troops clashed with their kidnappers, the ...

  • 95 killed in Iraq’s spiral of violence

    BAGHDAD -- Iraq's wave of bloodshed sharply escalated on Monday with more than a dozen car bombings across the country, part of attacks that killed at least 95 people and brought echoes of past sectarian carnage and fears of a dangerous spillover from Syria's civil war next ...

  • Wave of attacks hits Shiite and Sunni areas of Iraq killing at least 95

    An Iraqi police officer inspects the site of a car bomb attack in Basra, 340 miles (550 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 20, 2013. Two car bombings in the southern city of Basra, killing and wounding dozens of people, police said. Iraq has seen a spike of attacks, including bombings hitting both Sunni and Shiite civilian targets over the last week. (AP Photo/ Nabil ...

  • Iraq car bombings leave dozens dead

    The attacks, which occurred along busy commercial streets in Shiite and Sunni areas, followed a string of bombings and other attacks last week that killed more than 200 people. The ongoing violence has stoked the impression among Iraqis that the country is sliding back into chaos reminiscent of the civil war that claimed tens of thousands of lives between 2005 and 2008. Citing a number of ...

  • Attacks kill 95 in Iraq hint of Syrian spillover

    Tomas Young, the paralyzed Iraq war vet who announced earlier this spring that he was ready to die, said Monday that he has decided to live for ...

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