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Blasts and shootings claim 90 lives in Iraq as sectarian violence rises
Iraq is edging closer to all-out sectarian war between Sunni and Shia Muslims as a series of car bombings and shootings killed at least 90 people and left many others ...
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Multiple Iraq attacks kill 75
PRIME Minister Nuri al-Maliki will overhaul Iraq's security strategy after a two-day wave of violence killed 75 people, including 24 police. The latest killings brought the month's death toll from unrest to 352. "We are about to make changes in the high and middle positions of those responsible for security and the security strategy," Maliki said at a news conference in ...
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Tomas Young wounded Iraq war vet says he will live on for now
Tomas Young, the paralyzed Iraq war vet who announced earlier this spring that he was ready to die, said that he has decided to live for ...
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Iraq tribal leaders warn of war
At least 68 people have been killed and 195 injured in a series of car bombs across Iraqi cities, police and medics say, pushing the death toll over the past week to more than 200. This is one of the most sustained bouts of sectarian violence the country has seen in years. The bloodshed is still far shy of the pace, scale and brutality of the dark days of 2006-2007, when armed groups carried ...
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86 dead in wave of bomb attacks against Iraq Shiites
A wave of attacks killed at least 86 people in Shiite and Sunni areas of Iraq on Monday, officials said, pushing the death toll over the past week to more than 230 and extending one of the most sustained bouts of sectarian violence the country has seen in years.The bloodshed is still far shy of the pace, scale and brutality of the dark days of 2006-2007, when Sunni and Shiite militias carried ...
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Iraqi sectarian attacks kill at least 86
Iraq on Monday, pushing the death toll over the past week to more than 230 and extending one of the most sustained bouts of sectarian violence the country has seen in years.The worst of the violence took place in Baghdad, where 10 car bombs ripped through open-air markets and other areas of Shia neighbourhoods, killing at least 48 people and wounding more than 150, police officials said.In the ...
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Car bomb explosions in Baghdad kill more than 60
At least 70 people have been killed in a wave of car bombs in Iraq, raising concerns the country may slip back into civil war. NBC's Annabel Roberts and Richard O'Kelly ...
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Scores die in wave of Iraq bombs
Iraq 's minority Sunnis began protesting at what they say is mistreatment at the hands of the Shiite-led government. The mass demonstrations, which began in December, have largely been peaceful, but the number of attacks rose sharply after a deadly security crackdown on a Sunni protest camp in northern Iraq on April 23.Iraq's Shiite majority, which was oppressed ...
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Up to 79 people killed in wave of attacks in Iraq
A wave of attacks killed at least 79 people in Shiite and Sunni areas of Iraq today, officials said, pushing the death toll over the past week to more than 200 and extending one of the most sustained bouts of sectarian violence the country has seen in ...
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Car bombs target Shiites in Iraq killing more than 60
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - More than 60 people were killed in a series of car bomb explosions targeting Shi'ite Muslims across Iraq on Monday, police and medics said, part of the worst sectarian violence since U.S. troops pulled out in December ...
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Iraq Shaken by Series of Attacks
Baghdad, May 20 (Prensa Latina) Dawn had scarcely begun today when six cars loaded with explosives exploded in districts of this capital where Shiite Muslims live, killing at least 20 people, police sources reported. In the far southern city of Basra, another 10 people were killed by bombs hidden in two vehicles and exploded by remote control, according to official media, which did not ...
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Nearly 600000 Wounded Vets Claims for Disability Suffered in Iraq and Afghanistan Wars backlogged for Months
Let's say you're an Iraq or Afghanistan war veteran and you were seriously wounded during your tour of duty and subsequently upon your return to the states filed a claim for disability compensation to the Department of Veterans Affairs but as yet haven't had your claim processed. Most likely you're one of almost 600,000 wounded veterans whose claim is "backlogged", ...
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Iraq car bombings kill scores of civilians
Iraq on Monday, killing at least 57 people and escalating fears of a return to widespread sectarian bloodletting, officials said.The attacks on Monday, some of which targeted market places and crowded bus stops during rush hour, are the latest in a recent spike in violence in Iraq that has targeted both Sunni and Shia civilians and left more than 200 dead over the past week. The scenes are ...
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Car bomb kills 8 Iranian pilgrims north of Baghdad
A car bomb explosion struck a bus carrying Iranian pilgrims north of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad on Monday, killing eight pilgrims and wounding 19 others, a provincial police source ...
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Violence in Iraq hits deadliest level in five years
25/03/2013 03:16 CET The United Nations estimates that 700 people were killed in Iraq in April – the highest figure in almost five years. Tensions between Iraq’s Sunni minority and Shi’ites, who lead the government, have reached their highest level since US troops pulled out in December 2011. At least 20 people were killed by a series of car bombings in the capital, Baghdad ...
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Iraq bombs kill scores as violence spreads
At least 70 people have been killed in a wave of car bombs in Iraq, raising concerns the country may slip back into civil war. NBC's Annabel Roberts and Richard O'Kelly ...
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Will U.S. Designate Egypt Pakistan Iraq and Nigeria As Religious Freedom Violators
Pakistani Christians protest against the country's blasphemy laws and violence targeting their minority community. An independent U.S. watchdog has urged the executive branch every year since 2002 to designate Pakistan as a "country of particular concern" over religious freedom violations. (AP Photo) (CNSNews.com) - As the State Department prepares to release its annual report on ...
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Dubais Damac begins work on first Iraq project
Dubai-based property developer Damac Properties has begun construction on its first residential complex in Iraq, several years after it first announced its intention to expand into the Middle East ...
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Damac Properties announces strategic build programme in Iraq
Damac Properties, the Middle East's leading luxury private developer, has announced a comprehensive strategic plan to expand its operations to Iraq. The company, which has completed 37 buildings and has a further 66 currently under construction across sevens countries in the Middle East and North Africa, has begun work on Princess Tower - a 26-storey, luxury furnished apartment complex in ...
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Baghdad car bomb kills 13 raises death toll to 70
Shia neighborhood in Baghdad has killed 13 people. The blast pushed the day's death toll from a deadly wave of bombings and shooting attacks across Iraq to 70. The officials say the latest blast struck on Monday afternoon in a busy market in the Shaab Shia neighborhood of the Iraqi capital. A police officer says 25 people wounded in the explosion. A medical official confirmed the casualty ...
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Car bomb blast kills at least 12 in Iraqi capital
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A car bomb exploded in a Shi'ite neighborhood of the Iraqi capital Baghdad killing at least 12 people on Monday, police and hospital sources said. The blast, near a crowded market in the northern Shaab district of Baghdad, wounded 26. Earlier on Monday, at least 43 people were killed in a wave of car bomb explosions targeting Shi'ite Muslims in Baghdad and the ...
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Dozens dead in bombings shootings kidnappings across Iraq
Car bombings and shootings, many in predominately Shiite areas in Iraq, killed more than three dozen people, officials said Monday. Basra police said at least nine people were killed and 37 others wounded when two car bombs exploded Monday in two neighborhoods, CNN reported. In Haditha, gunmen ambushed two police checkpoints, killing eight officers, police said. Seven car bombs in Baghdad on ...
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Fears of Civil War Grip Iraq as Bombings and Death Skyrocket
Providing further evidence that Iraq is already experiencing the violence of a civil war, multiple bombings in two major cities on Monday killed dozens of people and injured many ...
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Iraq violence kills 50 in two days
Two days of bombings, attacks on police and a botched hostage rescue killed 50 people in Iraq, among them 24 police who died as security sharply deteriorates in Anbar province, officials said Monday. Anbar, to the west of Baghdad, is home to two of the main centres of Sunni anti-government protests that broke out almost five months ago, and has since seen a number of attacks on security ...
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Dozens killed in wave of bombings in Iraq
The attacks, some of which hit market places and crowded bus stops during the busy morning hours, are the latest in a recent spike in violence in Iraq that has targeted both Sunni and Shiite civilians and pushed the death toll over the past week to more than 200 people. The scenes have been reminiscent of the retaliatory attacks between the two groups that pushed the country to the brink of ...
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