Topic: Baghdad

Baghdad blasts target Shi'ites, kill 63

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A wave of bombings killed at least 63 people in Baghdad on Thursday, the first attacks since Iraq's Shi'ite-led government was engulfed in a crisis that risks fracturing the country along sectarian and ethnic faultlines.The bombings, just days after ...

Baghdad blasts kill 63 as Iraq tensions rise

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A series of bombings hit Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 63 people in the first big assault attack on Iraq's capital since a sectarian crisis erupted within its government just days after the U.S. troop withdrawal.The apparently coordinated ...

Baghdad blasts kill 57 as Iraq tensions rise

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A rash of bombings hit Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 57 people in the first big attack on Iraq's capital since a crisis between its Shi'ite Muslim-led government and Sunni rivals erupted days after the U.S. troop withdrawal.The ...

Baghdad blasts kill 40 as tensions rise

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A series of blasts and a suicide bomber hit mainly Shi'ite areas in Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 40 people in the first major attack on Iraq's capital since a crisis erupted between its Shi'ite-led government and Sunni ...

Baghdad blasts kill 17 as tensions rise

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A series of blasts hit mainly Shi'ite areas in Baghdad Thursday, killing at least 17 people in the first wave of attacks on Iraq's capital since a crisis erupted between its Shi'ite-led government and Sunni rivals after the U.S. ...

Iraq says PM possible target in Green Zone bomb

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi authorities said on Friday a rare attack inside Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone this week was carried out by a suicide bomber in a car and may have targeted the country's prime minister.Reports a suicide bomber was able ...

18 dead in attacks in Iraq's Diyala

Attacks in Iraq's confessionally mixed Diyala province, north of Baghdad, killed 18 people on Thursday, 10 of them in a market bombing in the town of Khalis, medical and security officials said.The bloodshed came as US Vice President Joe Biden was in ...

17 killed, MP wounded in Iraq attacks

At least 17 people were killed and more than 50 wounded, among them an Iraqi member of parliament, on Monday in a wave of bloody attacks mainly in and around Baghdad, security officials and an MP said.In the deadliest attack, a suicide ...

Suicide bomber hits Iraq military base, 19 dead

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide bomber attacked a military base in the Iraqi town of Taji on Monday, killing at least 19 people, in the latest assault by insurgents trying to undermine the government.In central Baghdad an explosion in a car park ...

11 killed in Iraq suicide bombing outside jail

A suicide car bomber detonated an explosives-packed vehicle at a prison north of Baghdad on Monday, killing 11 people and wounding at least 15, security officials said.The attack, which left policemen and prison guards and employees among the dead, is the latest ...
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