News Source: Napa Valley Register
| 7 months ago
It’s been only seven weeks since President Obama outlined a strategy for Iraq aimed at withdrawing most U.S. troops by the end of next summer...During the past month security around the country has been slipping: At least 37 people have been killed...
News Source: Daily News
| 7 months ago
Iraq created a military task force Sunday to battle gangland-style crime after the latest bloodshed: gunmen with silencer-fitted weapons killing at least seven people during a daylight heist of jewelry stores. The swift government response to the...
News Source: Pak Tribune
| 7 months ago
Gunmen killed three people on Sunday while robbing two jewellery stores in a busy Shia shopping district in the Iraq capital, witnesses and an official said. Witnesses said four men armed with pistols equipped with silencers simultaneously raided two...
News Source: Gulf News
| 7 months ago
April 19, 2009, 14:33 Baghdad: Attackers have fatally shot seven people in an old market area of Baghdad in a new spree of violence in the Iraqi capital. The Iraqi military said a "criminal gang using weapons equipped with silencers" was behind the...
News Source: United Press International
| 7 months ago
Los Angeles Times A series of robberies left at least seven people dead in Baghdad Sunday, authorities said. The New York Times said the violent robberies in the Tobchi neighborhood appeared to have been committed by the same group of gunmen.
News Source: Gulf News
| 7 months ago
The robbers opened fire in a mostly Shiite district in northern Baghdad. Witnesses say the gunmen killed a father and son in one shop and another man in an adjacent shop. A barber who rushed to the aid of the shopkeepers is also among the dead.