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The Daily Star
| 10 months ago
Security was tightened Tuesday in Baghdad neighbourhoods engulfed by a wave of nationwide violence which saw 113 people killed and 250 wounded in Iraq's deadliest day in two and a half years. Monday's spate of bombings and shootings, which drew...
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International Business Times
| 10 months ago
A policeman stands guard at the site of a bomb attack in Kirkuk, 250km (155 miles) north of Baghdad (Reuters) A wave of morning explosions in Baghdad and north Iraq has left 82 people dead, according to AP. In the bloodiest day of the year so far,...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 10 months ago
A further 161 people were wounded as insurgents mounted more than 20 different attacks in at least 14 cities, security and medical officials said. The deadliest attack struck the town of Taji, just north of Baghdad. One of the medical officials said...
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CNN Blog
| 10 months ago
Gunmen attacked an Iraqi military base north of Baghdad early Monday, killing at least 15 soldiers, officials from the Ministry of Interior said. The attackers used mortar rounds and small arms to target the base in the town of Dhuluiya, about 80...
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NOW Lebanon
| 10 months ago
Gunmen launched an assault on a military base north of Baghdad early Monday, killing at least seven Iraqi soldiers, security and medical officials said. A medic at the main hospital in the nearby town of Balad said they had received the bodies of...
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BBC
| 10 months ago
Spate of attacks north of Baghdad 'kills 24' A string of bomb attacks and shootings north of the Iraqi capital has killed at least 24 people, say security and medical officials. In the worst single reported incident, at least seven people were killed...
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The New York Times
| 10 months ago
A series of attacks across Iraq left about 30 people dead and more than 100 wounded, officials said Sunday. The most lethal was a triple bombing in a food market southeast of Baghdad that killed 15 and wounded dozens in the evening, just before...
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The Daily Star
| 10 months ago
Car bombs in two towns south of Baghdad and in the Iraqi cities of Najaf and Mosul killed a total of 22 people Sunday and wounded 89, police and hospital sources said, in one of the most violent days of the past two weeks. At the end of the day's...
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NOW Lebanon
| 10 months ago
A spate of bombings across Iraq, the worst of which were just south of Baghdad, killed 17 people and wounded nearly 100 on Sunday, security and medical officials said. The deadliest attack took place in Mahmudiyah, 30 kilometers [18 miles] south of...
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The Daily Star
| 10 months ago
Al-Qaeda's front group in Iraq said it would begin targeting judges and prosecutors, and try to help its prisoners break out of Iraqi jails, in an Internet audio message purportedly left by its leader. The message posted on various jihadist forums...
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International Business Times
| 10 months ago
Car bombs in two towns south of Baghdad and in the Shia holy city of Najaf killed a total of 20 people on Sunday and wounded 80, police and hospital sources said, in one of the most violent days of the past two weeks. Three car bombs killed 11 people...
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Al Jazeera English
| 10 months ago
31 Bomb attacks in several Iraqi towns have left at least 20 people dead and dozens more injured, in one of the most violent days in the past two weeks. Three car bombs killed 11 people and wounded 38 in Mahmudiya, a town 30km south of Baghdad,...
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BBC
| 10 months ago
Wave of bombings in Iraqi towns kills at least 16 A series of bombs in towns to the south of the Iraqi capital Baghdad has killed at least 16 people and left dozens of others injured, officials say. Two bombs hit a market in town of Madaen, killing...
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AP Online
| 10 months ago
Turkey (AP) — A Turkish paramilitary helicopter crashed Sunday in a southeastern region where troops are fighting Kurdish rebels, killing four security personnel on board, officials said. Eight others were injured.
The S-70 Sikorsky...
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Arab News
| 10 months ago
September 2005 Journalists, generals, historians, Iraqis and a former hostage have told their stories about Iraq, but now more than two years after American troops invaded, the flood of books by US soldiers has arrived. From Roman emperor Julius...
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SF Gate
| 10 months ago
The first online statement from the new leader of al-Qaida 's affiliate in Iraq claims that the militant network is returning to the old strongholds from which it was driven by U.S. forces and their Sunni allies prior to the American withdrawal at...
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Zee News
| 10 months ago
An interior ministry official said a booby-trapped car blew up outside a restaurant in Najaf, 160 km south of Baghdad. The powerful blast damaged the restaurant and several nearby shops and buildings. First Published: Sunday, July 22, 2012, 18:25...
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NOW Lebanon
| 10 months ago
A car bomb in the center of the Iraqi city of Najaf wounded 23 people on Sunday, security and medical officials said, a relatively rare attack in the Shia holy city. The 7 a.m. (0400 GMT) attack struck near a restaurant in Najaf's old town,...
