The Guardian | Iraq: Third Day of Funeral Bombings New York Times A double bombing at a Sunni funeral in Baghdad killed 14 people on Monday, officials said. It was the third day in a row in which funerals were attacked in the Iraqi capital. Officials said Monday's blasts hit near a mourning tent for one of four ... Bombs at Sunni Funeral in Iraq Kill 14 Bombs At Sunni Funeral in Iraq Kill 15 Dozens more dead in Iraq as wave of sectarian violence continues |
Bomber Hits Sunni Funeral as Attacks Mount in Iraq New York Times BAGHDAD — A suicide bomber detonated his explosive belt in a funeral tent filled with Sunni mourners in Baghdad on Sunday evening, killing 16 people and wounding 35 others, police officials said. It was the latest episode of near-daily violence in Iraq. |
Only Known Iraq Billionaire Hires Women After Hussein Bloomberg Faruk Mustafa Rasool first saw a mobile phone in 1998 while he was lying in a London hospital bed recovering from quadruple heart bypass surgery. Ignoring his doctors' advice to rest, he started figuring out how to bring the device to his native Iraq. |
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty | Votes Being Counted In Kurdish Regional Elections In Iraq RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty People line up to vote in regional parliamentary elections in Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region on September 21. Tweet · Follow @RFERL. Related Articles. Iraq's Kurdish Region Goes To Polls · Photogallery Putting Rivalries Aside, All Main Kurdish ... Iraq's Kurdish region waits for election results With eyes on greater autonomy, Iraq Kurds vote in their first election in four ... Economy booms in Iraq's Kurdistan as other parts struggle with violence |
The Daily Star | Bomb hits Iraq ambulance carrying pregnant woman Fox News MOSUL, Iraq (AFP) – A bomb exploded near an ambulance taking a pregnant woman to hospital in Iraq on Monday, wounding her and killing two people, police and a doctor said. The blast near the northern city of Mosul also wounded the ambulance driver ... Iraq: Two Explosions In Kirkuk |
gulfnews.com | Terrorist Groups Rise in Iraq Al-Monitor In late August 2005, the Imam Musa al-Kadhim Shrine in Baghdad fell under a mortar attack that left seven people dead and dozens wounded. The attack, for which an al-Qaeda-linked group claimed responsibility, was just one part of the events that ... Iraq struggles to keep Syria's war out |
Al-Arabiya | Commander of al-Qaeda in Iraq and Syria has been killed Al-Arabiya Abu-Abdallah al-Libi, a top commander of al-Qaeda front group The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), has been killed on Sunday in Idlib in northwestern Syria, Al Arabiya television reported. The Free Syrian Army denied responsibility for Libi's death. Al Qaeda ramps up attacks in Iraq Top commander of al-Qaeda front group in Iraq and Syria killed in Idlib Profile: Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant |
Pakistan, Iraq See Uptick In Suicide Bombings NPR To try to understand what's behind the rise in gruesome attacks, Steve Inskeep talks to Vali Nasr, who is the dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He has served as a senior adviser to the U.S. special representative for ... |
Gunmen Attack Shiite Family Near Baghdad, Kill 3 ABC News Officials say gunmen have broken into the home of a Shiite family in a Sunni-dominated area south of Baghdad and killed family members. Two police officers say the militants attacked the house in the town of Youssifiyah early on Monday morning, killing ... |
Iraq's miracle baby: Child delivered after bomb hits mother in labor GlobalPost A Syrian-Kurdish refugee woman hamgs out her laundry on a clothesline outside a tent provided by the UNHCR at the Quru Gusik refugee camp in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq. (SAFIN HAMED/AFP/Getty Images). Please support our site by enabling ... |