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Dozens killed in blasts targeting Iraqi Sunnis
More than 60 people have been killed and dozens hurt in several bomb attacks apparently targeting Sunnis in Iraq. In the first attack, in Baquba, about 50 km (30 miles) north of Baghdad, at least 41 people were killed when two bombs detonated outside a Sunni ...
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Dozens Killed in Bombings Outside Baghdad
Dozens of people have been killed in twin bombings targeting Sunni worshippers in Iraq -- bringing the death toll from several days of violence to nearly 100 and increasing fears of renewed sectarian ...
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Billionaire Returns To The Iraqi Oil Game With New IPO
Swiss billionaire Jean-Claude Gandur poses next to 'Sarah,' a painting by Jean Fautrier, one of his collection of masterpieces on display in late 2011 at the Fabre museum, Montpellier. (Image credit: AFP/Getty Images via @daylife) After five years, Jean Claude Gandur is back in the game. The Swiss billionaire made the bulk of his $2.1 billion fortune (as of ...
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Bombs targeting Iraqi Sunnis kills nearly 50
BAQUBA, Iraq -- Two bombs near a Sunni mosque and another against a Sunni funeral procession killed 49 people in Iraq on Friday, officials said, after two days of attacks against Shiites that killed ...
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Roadside bomb kills 19 in west Baghdad police medics
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Nineteen people were killed on Friday when a roadside bomb exploded near a commercial complex in the Amiriya district in the west of Baghdad, police and medics ...
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At Least 66 Killed in Bomb Blasts in Iraq
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Many Killed in Baghdad Car Bombs After Attacks on Shiite Districts
Bagdad, 17 May (Prensa Latina) Two car bombs exploded in Shiite neighbourhoods in Baghdad this morning, killing at least 12 and wounding 30. Police said the first blast struck a bus and taxi rank during rush hour in the Sadr City neighbourhood. A 7-year-old child was among the nine people killed. Another 16 were wounded. The second bomb hit a small market at a taxi stop in the eastern suburb of ...
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Syrias Nusra Front eclipsed by Iraq-based al-Qaida
BEIRUT - The most feared and effective rebel group battling President Bashar Assad, the Islamist Nusra Front, is being eclipsed by a more radical jihadi force whose aims go far beyond overthrowing the Syrian leader.Al-Qaida's Iraq-based wing, which nurtured Nusra in the early stages of the rebellion against Assad, has moved in and sidelined the organization, Nusra sources and other rebels ...
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Treasury Dept. Lifts Sanctions on Iraqi Bank
The US Treasury Department Friday lifted sanctions against an Iraqi bank which had been barred from doing business with US companies because it had close contacts to Iranian financial institutions. The privately owned Elaf Islamic Bank in Iraq was sanctioned in July 2012 as part of sweeping US efforts to make it difficult for foreign countries to purchase Iranian oil. The aim was to ...
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Scores die in Iraq bomb attacks
The attack raises Fridy's overall death toll to at least 58.That makes it the deadliest day in about two months as a spike in violence has raised fears the country could be on the path to a new round of sectarian bloodshed.Tensions have been intensifying since Sunnis began protesting what they say is mistreatment at the hands of the Shiite-led government, including random detentions and ...
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Revenge attack on Sunni mosque in Iraq kills 40
Iraq on Friday in two separate incidents. The first attack claimed 40 lives as worshippers left prayers at a Sunni mosque in Baquba, 50km north-east of Baghdad. It followed two days of attacks, many in Shia districts, which left more than 50 dead. Attacks against Sunni mosques have increased recently, raising fears that the country is slipping into a new round of sectarian violence.Later in the ...
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Bomb strikes Sunni area in Baghdad killing 7
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Iraqi officials say a bomb has exploded in a commericial area in a mainly Sunni neighborhood in western Baghdad, killing at least seven people and wounding ...
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Iraq UN envoy urges political leaders to help end bloodshed following latest bombings
Print 17 May 2013 – The top United Nations official in Iraq today urged Iraqi leaders to protect civilians following a wave of bombings over the past few days which have claimed more innocent lives. ';It is the responsibility of all leaders to stop the bloodshed in this country and to protect their citizens,'; said the Secretary-General’s Special Representative in Iraq, ...
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Zaidan backing Iraq to spring a surprise
Iraq will contest their fourth FIFA U-20 World Cup in Turkey later this summer. Despite that pedigree, the country's U-17s have had to endure a long wait to make their breakthrough, only sealing their first qualification for the FIFA U-17 World Cup last year. They are now gearing up to make their debut in the final tournament, which will be held in the United Arab Emirates between 17 ...
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U.S. lifts sanctions on Iraq bank that had links to Iran
WASHINGTON | Fri May 17, 2013 1:19pm EDT WASHINGTON May 17 (Reuters) - The United States said on Friday it had allowed an Iraqi bank to again conduct business with the U.S. financial system after the bank showed it was no longer helping Iran evade financial sanctions. Iraq's Elaf Islamic Bank was first blacklisted by the United States last year for knowingly doing business with the ...
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Dozens killed in series of Iraq bombs
The attacks are believed to be retaliation for attacks against Shias on Wednesday and Thursday. Almost 100 Iraqis are believed to have been killed in this latest outbreak of sectarian ...
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Mosque funeral bombings kill 47 in Iraq
Iraqis gather at the scene of a bomb attack in Baqouba, northeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, May 17, 2013. A bomb killed dozens of people at a Sunni mosque in central Iraq, hitting worshippers as they were emerging from Friday prayers, security officials said. The attack in Baqouba comes after two days of attacks, many in Shiite districts, left tens of people dead. Attacks against Sunni mosques ...
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Dozens killed in Iraq bombings
Baghdad . Another explosion went off shortly afterward as people gathered to help the wounded, leaving a total of at least 40 dead and 56 wounded. After the explosions, bloodied bodies lay strewn across the road outside the mosque.The violence was the latest to hit a Sunni Muslim house of worship, a trend that has been on the rise. About 30 mosques were attacked between mid-April to mid-May, ...
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8 killed 25 wounded in bombing at funeral in Iraq
At least eight people were killed and 25 others wounded on Friday in a roadside bomb attack at a funeral in Iraq, an Interior Ministry source said.The roadside bomb exploded at the funeral for a local official in the town of Madain, some 30 km south of Baghdad, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.Violence is still common in Iraq despite the dramatic decrease since its peak in 2006 ...
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35 killed 45 injured in blasts in eastern Iraqs Diyala
At least 35 people were killed and 45 others injured in two blasts, which hit almost simultaneously on Friday in Baquba, capital of eastern Iraq's Diyala province, after the Friday prayer, an official said.The two roadside bombs exploded near the Saroya mosque in Baquba, 65 km northeast of Iraq's capital of Baghdad, and hit the Sunni worshipers as they were leaving the mosque after ...
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Bombing at Iraq mosque kills 26
In the first attack, police said a bomb detonated just as the Sunni congregation was leaving Friday prayer services at a mosque in the Baqouba district ...
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Deadly blasts kills 49 in Iraqi
Two bombs near a Sunni mosque and another against a Sunni funeral procession killed 49 people in Iraq on Friday, officials said, after two days of attacks against Shi'as that killed ...
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DNA Tests Needed to Identify Bodies Found in Mass Graves in Iraq
Baghdad, May 17 (Prensa Latina) Deputy Governor in the Western Iraqi province of Al Anbar, Sadun Obaid al-Shalan, today called for using DNA tests to identify about a thousand bodies found in three mass graves on Thursday. Security forces and human rights organizations found the mass graves with containing around a thousand bodies in the northern city of Fallujah, and it appears that they were ...
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Forty-one killed by blasts outside Sunni mosque in Iraq
Security At least 41 people have been killed and 57 wounded in two explosions outside a Sunni mosque in Baquba, 50 miles (30 km) outside Baghdad, after Friday prayers, police said. The Baquba blast killed 41 people was followed by a second explosion, which tore into crowds of people who were rushing to help victims of the first attack, police told Reuters."I was about 30 meters from the ...
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Twenty six killed in Iraq mosque bomb attack
A bomb has killed 26 people at a Sunni mosque in central Iraq, security officials say.Tthe blast in Baqouba hit worshippers emerging from Friday prayers.A health official confirmed the death ...
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