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23 killed,about 60 injured in car bomb explosions in Iraq

By: jonnalagadda3

In Iraq, 23 people were killed and nearly 60 injured in three car bomb explosions in the city of Ramadi in Anbar province today. According to Iraqi national News agency, first explosion occurred in a parking lot near the police headquarters of Anbar province and another suicide attacker later detonated a bomb on a motorcycle near provincial ...

about 1 month ago

Woman suicide bomber kills five at Iraqi funeral

By: petergill

A suicide bomb attack at a funeral killed five people on Monday in western Iraq where a roadside bombing claimed a sixth life, local officials said.Five mourners were killed when the woman bomber set off a belt full of explosives at the funeral in the town of Haditha."While people were carrying the coffin, a suicide bomber exploded himself in ...

about 1 month ago

two pilots die in iraq

By: whiteshark

two U.S. Army pilots die after their helicpoter made a hard landing in Iraq's Salah id Din province.

22 days ago

Turning the tribes

By: azhar12

MCCLATCHY reports that Barack Obama will send 34,000 more troops to Afghanistan. That would fall short of General Stanley McChrystal's "low-risk option" of sending an additional 80,000 troops. And it falls in between the general's "high-risk option" (20,000 troops) and "medium-risk option" (40-45,000 troops). Some will surely accuse the president ...

6 days ago