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Bomb attacks in Baghdad killed at least 45 people, injured hundreds of others and destroyed a village near Mosul in northern Iraq Monday, officials said. An Interior Ministry official said two truck bombs exploded simultaneously, wiping out the Shiite...
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Hardline Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, whose movements are usually kept secret, is visiting Syria and has met Syrian President Bashar Assad, an official said Tuesday. At their meeting on Monday they discussed “the latest developments in Iraq” and “the...
Tags: Iraqi Shia, Iraq Hopes, U.S, Barack Obama, Syria, Obama White House, Baghdad, bombs attacks
Roadside bomb attacks against coalition forces in Afghanistan hit an all-time high last year, killing more troops than ever and highlighting an "emboldened" insurgency there, according to figures released by the Pentagon. Last year, 3,276 improvised explosive...
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Four Iraqi judges were targeted in separate bomb attacks in Baghdad on Monday, a security official told AFP, just three days after a Supreme Court judge was shot dead in the capital. The attacks on Ala Hussein Saleh, Ali al-Alaf, Ghanim Abdallah al-Shemmari...
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Roadside bomb attacks and fatalities in Iraq are down by almost 90% over the last year, according to Pentagon records and interviews with military leaders. In May, 11 U.S. troops were killed by blasts from improvised explosive devices (IEDs) compared...
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