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Scores die in Iraqi bomb attacks
BAGHDAD - Iraq’s wave of bloodshed sharply escalated Monday with more than a dozen car bombings across the country, part of attacks that killed at least 95 people and brought echoes of past sectarian carnage and fears of a dangerous spillover from Syria’s civil war next door. The latest spiral of violence — which has claimed more than 240 lives over the past week — ...
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‘War on mosques’ now daily part of Iraq strife
Ihsan al-Shammari told AFP. "It is a war on mosques." Iraqis have lived with near-daily violence since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of the country that toppled dictator Saddam Hussein, and militants still attack both security forces and civilians almost each day. Now, they have set their sites on mosques as well. In one of the deadliest attacks, two bombs exploded near ...
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Ten Years After US Invades Iraq Israel Eager to Take the US Into Round Two
Ten years after the US invaded Iraq in 2003, another Middle East war looms large between the West and Muslim states. Signs point to the strong possibility that Israel, and its US Zionist supporters, remain determined, first, to draw the US into the Syrian Civil War, and second, to lead Israel in a joint attack against Iran. All from the skies, of course. Boots on the ground have not served ...
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12 kidnapped policemen killed in western Iraq
Twelve kidnapped policemen were killed and four were wounded in overnight clashes between the abductors and the Iraqi security forces in Anbar province, a provincial police source said on Monday.The Iraqi army and police forces carried out a joint operation on Sunday night in the desert area between Baghdad and Jordan to free kidnapped policemen, and the troops clashed with their kidnappers, the ...
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95 killed in Iraq’s spiral of violence
BAGHDAD -- Iraq's wave of bloodshed sharply escalated on Monday with more than a dozen car bombings across the country, part of attacks that killed at least 95 people and brought echoes of past sectarian carnage and fears of a dangerous spillover from Syria's civil war next ...
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Iraq car bombings leave dozens dead
The attacks, which occurred along busy commercial streets in Shiite and Sunni areas, followed a string of bombings and other attacks last week that killed more than 200 people. The ongoing violence has stoked the impression among Iraqis that the country is sliding back into chaos reminiscent of the civil war that claimed tens of thousands of lives between 2005 and 2008. Citing a number of ...
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Attacks kill 95 in Iraq hint of Syrian spillover
Tomas Young, the paralyzed Iraq war vet who announced earlier this spring that he was ready to die, said Monday that he has decided to live for ...
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Living in Hell Iraqi Christians Dream of Paradise
- Luis Shabi nostalgically recalls his nine years of novitiate in Rome and a ';fantastic road trip through Europe'; before returning to Iraq in 1969. ';Those were the good times,'; sighs the Chaldean Archbishop of Baghdad from a bunker in the heart of the Iraqi ...
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Metternich in Baghdad - By Ramzy Mardini
Hagel's front office gets a new Hand; Shineski, under fire; Obama to talk drone, Gitmo policy; MCT: Amos being investigated; Terminal Lance: "Shut up!" and a bit more. - by Gordon ...
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U.S. mess in Iraq
Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki listens to a question during an interview with The Associated Press in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013. (AP Photo/ Khalid ...
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Reasons to Be Hopeful a Decade After We Went Into Iraq
website. Ten years ago, my part of the world was full of valiant opposition to the new wars being launched far away and at home-and of despair. And like despairing people everywhere, whether in a personal depression or a political tailspin, these activists believed the future would look more or less like the present. If there was nothing else they were confident about, at least they were ...
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Are tit-for-tat sectarian killings enough to tilt Iraq back to war
Iraqi security force members inspect the site of a car bomb attack in Basra, 340 miles southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday. Two car bombings in the southern city of Basra, killing and wounding dozens of people, police said. Iraq has seen a spike of attacks, including bombings hitting both Sunni and Shiite civilian targets over the last ...
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Bombs tear through Baghdad in Iraqs bloodiest day for months
The worst of yesterday's violence took place in Baghdad's Shiite neighbourhoods, where 10 car bombs killed at least 48 people and wounded more than ...
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A look at the deadliest attacks in Iraq since the 2011 US troop pullout
BAGHDAD - Here is a look at the deadliest attacks in Iraq since the withdrawal of U.S. troops on Dec. 18, 2011: -- May 20, 2013: A wave of attacks, some at markets and rush hour crowds, hour killed at least 86 people in Shiite and Sunni areas. -- May 18, 2013: Shootings and bombings kill at least 16 people including an anti-terrorism police captain and his family. -- May 17, 2013: Bombs rip ...
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How Baghdad Fuels Iraqs Sectarian Fire
The Iraqi government has hurled the country to the brink of a new civil war. In under a month, Baghdad launched a vicious assault on a Sunni protest camp, resulting in 44 deaths; executed 21 alleged Sunni terrorists in one day, and suspended the licenses of 10 satellite channels, 9 of them deemed pro-Sunni. Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki’s message to his country’s extremely ...
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9 killed in attacks against mosques in Iraq
/enpproperty--> BAGHDAD - At least nine people were killed and 53 others wounded in bombing attacks against two Shiite mosques in Iraq's southern city of Hilla on Monday, a police source said. A suicide bomber blew himself up at Al-Wardiyah mosque in Hilla, some 100 km south of Baghdad, while a bomb exploded in the nearby Al-Galagh mosque, the source told Xinhua on condition of ...
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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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