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Suicide bomber kills 15 in north Iraq mosque

AFP Global Edition 40 days ago

Fifteen worshippers were killed in an Iraqi mosque on Friday as a suicide bomber shot dead the prayer leader and then blew himself up in a town near the restive northern city of Mosul. Two other attacks in Iraq on Friday killed ...

Suicide bomber kills 12 in north Iraq mosque

AFP Global Edition 40 days ago

Twelve worshippers were killed in an Iraqi mosque on Friday as a suicide bomber shot dead the prayer leader and then blew himself up in a town near the restive northern city of Mosul. The attack targeted a Sunni Arab mosque in ...

Suicide bomber kills 11 in northern Iraqi mosque

AFP Global Edition 40 days ago

Eleven worshippers were killed on Friday as a suicide bomber inside a mosque shot dead the prayer leader and then blew himself up in an Iraqi town in the restive northern region of Mosul. The attack targeted a Sunni Arab mosque in ...

11 killed in Iraq violence

AFP Global Edition 42 days ago

Eleven people were killed and 60 others wounded in attacks in Baghdad, the northern city of Mosul and the Shiite shrine city of Karbala on Wednesday, police and ministry officials said. In northwest Baghdad, nearly simultaneous mortar attacks and shootings during jewellery ...

Four killed in spate of Iraqi violence

AFP Global Edition 44 days ago

A spate of shootings and bombings across Iraq on Monday killed four people and wounded 13 others, police and military officials said. American and Iraqi forces also said they had arrested an aide to Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri, the fugitive deputy of Iraq's ...

Iraq's joint Kurd, Arab, U.S, patrols face big hurdles

Reuters US Online Report World News 52 days ago

MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. officials are hoping joint patrols between Iraq's largely Arab army and Kurdish troops will build trust in tense disputed northern areas, dampening the tinder that many fear could ignite Iraq's next war. The troops themselves aren't so ...

Huge crackdown in north Iraq snares 150 insurgents: ministry

AFP Global Edition 53 days ago

Security forces have arrested more than 150 people, including Al-Qaeda leaders and Arab fighters, in a massive crackdown on insurgents in northern Nineveh province, the defence ministry said on Saturday. The operation in Iraq's most violent region was launched late Wednesday and ...

Iraqi forces seize 140 insurgent suspects in Mosul

Reuters US Online Report World News 54 days ago

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi troops have arrested 140 suspected al Qaeda members and other Sunni Arab militants in the past four days in raids on the northern city of Mosul, security officials said on Saturday. Mosul is the last urban stronghold of ...

Iraq's Mosul hopes for end to stubborn insurgency

Reuters US Online Report World News 55 days ago

MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - For a city under constant attack at the hands of a violent Sunni Arab insurgency, northern Iraq's Mosul looks in better shape than it has for many years. Streets littered with bombed out rubble have been cleared and ...

Four Iraqi policemen killed in suicide attack

AFP Global Edition 59 days ago

A suicide car bomber on Sunday killed four Iraqi policemen and wounded four others near the predominantly Sunni Arab western city of Ramadi, a police official said. The attack happened around 10.30 am (0830 GMT) 10 kilometres (six miles) north east of ...

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