News Source: BBC
| 3 months ago
The bombs were attached to the buses and exploded about half an hour apart, one report said. Kut is in a mainly Shia Muslim area some 150km (95 miles) south-east of the capital, Baghdad. The attack there comes days after a double truck bombing in...
News Source: Al Jazeera
| 3 months ago
Bombs on two buses in southern Iraq have exploded, killing at least 10 people and injuring another 25. Police said that all of the casualties in Monday's blasts in the city of Kut, 175km southeast of Baghdad, were civilians. Mohammed Fadhil, a...
News Source: War In Context
| 3 months ago
M ilitary officials are anxiously watching the brittle partnership between Sunni and Shiite Muslims in Iraq as U.S. analysts warn that renewed waves of violence have put the country at a crucial crossroads.
News Source: Androscoggin News
| 3 months ago
The deadly Baghdad bombings represent an obvious lapse in security, the U.S. commander in charge of training Iraqi security forces said on Thursday, adding that he's frustrated with the pace of some of the training...Frank Helmick said he's not...
News Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 3 months ago
49:00 Updated August 25, 2009 00:48:00 At least 10 people were killed and 19 wounded when bombs exploded on two buses near Iraq's southern city of Kut, a police officer said.
News Source: CNN
| 3 months ago
Some midlevel and senior members of the Baath Party sought refuge in Syria following the U.S...Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki asked for the handover of some of those ex-officials during a visit to Damascus last week, Iraqi officials said.