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SF Gate
| 10 months ago
Bombings and shootings ripped across Iraq on Monday, killing at least 106 people in the deadliest day in more than two years. The coordinated attacks in 15 cities sent a chilling warning that al-Qaida is slowly resurging in the security vacuum...
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Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
| 10 months ago
The bloodshed, which coincided with an intensifying of the conflict in neighboring Syria, pointed up the deficiencies of the Iraqi security forces, which failed to prevent insurgents from striking in multiple locations across the country. As well as...
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United Press International
| 10 months ago
Iraqi militants initiated at least 37 attacks across Iraq Monday, killing at least 97 people and wounding more than 300, officials said. Officials said the insurgents set off car bombs, rushed a military base and ambushed checkpoints in the single...
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BBC
| 10 months ago
As Iraq suffers its latest wave of bombing and shootings, one of the deadliest, the BBC's Sebastian Usher examines what lies behind insurgents' attempts to spread chaos and discord. Every month this year, there have been major co-ordinated attacks in...
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Zee News
| 10 months ago
The coordinated attacks in 13 cities sent a chilling warning that al Qaeda is slowly resurging in the security vacuum created by a weak government in Baghdad and the departure of the US military seven months ago. Though there was no immediate claim...
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DAWN
| 10 months ago
A wave attacks in Baghdad and north of the capital killed at least 107 people in Iraq's deadliest day in more than two years after al Qaeda warned it would mount new attacks and sought to retake territory. Officials said at least 216 people were...
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National Public Radio
| 10 months ago
In Baghdad's Sadr City district, the view through a vehicle that was destroyed in one of today's attacks. In Baghdad's Sadr City district, the view through a vehicle that was destroyed in one of today's attacks. The death toll keeps rising and is now...
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Jerusalem Post
| 10 months ago
In one of bloodiest days in weeks, string of bomb attacks hits Iraq shattering lull in violence in lead up to Ramadan. A string of bomb attacks across Iraq killed at least 50 people on Monday and wounded 144 more, police and hospital sources said, in...
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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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Voice of America
| 10 months ago
Residents gather at the site of a car bomb attack in Mahmudiya, 30 km (20 miles) south of Baghdad, July 23, 2012. VOA News July 23, 2012 Iraqi officials say a wave of bombings and shootings has killed at least 50 people and wounded 112 others on one...
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Zee News
| 10 months ago
Iraqi police say gunmen have killed 13 soldiers on an Army base in the country's northeast, bringing the nationwide death toll to 82 in the single bloodiest day so far this year. Two senior police officials said the gunmen arrived at dawn on Monday...
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The Observer
| 10 months ago
Mohammed Ameen/Reuters A string of bomb attacks across Iraq have killed dozens and wounded more than 100, according to reports. A car bomb outside a Baghdad office issuing government IDs killed at least 14 people, part of a wave of Monday morning...
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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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Al Jazeera English
| 10 months ago
51 A series of car bombs in Mahmoudiya, south of Baghdad, killed at least seven people, initial reports said [Reuters] A series of gun and bomb attacks has wracked Iraq for the second straight day, with unidentified gunmen targeting a military base...
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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...
