KUNDUZ (AFP) – Up to 60 militants and 19 civilians may have been killed in bloody clashes between rival militant groups in northern Afghanistan, a police official said Sunday.
The fighting between Taliban rebels and militants loyal to the Hezb-i-Islami insurgent group erupted early Saturday in Baghlan province where both…
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BAGHDAD (Agencies) – Millions of Iraqis braved waves of deadly rocket, mortar and bomb attacks that killed 38 to vote Sunday in a general election seen as a test of the war-shattered nation’s young democracy.
“We don’t care about the bombs. The people will vote,” said Abbas Hussein, jangling a…
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Up to 60 militants and 19 civilians may have been killed in bloody clashes between rival Islamist militant groups in northern Afghanistan, a police official said Sunday. The fighting between Taliban rebels and militants loyal to the Hezb-i-Islami insurgent group erupted early Saturday in Baghlan province where both factions are…
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Iraqis on Sunday started voting in their war-shattered nation’s second parliamentary election, as mortars and bombs rocked Baghdad.
Twelve people were killed and eight wounded in a Baghdad bomb attack Sunday as Iraqis voted in parliamentary elections, an interior ministry official said.
A total of 10 mortar blasts and four…
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Iraqis on Sunday started voting in their war-shattered nation’s second parliamentary election, as mortars and bombs rocked Baghdad.
Twelve people were killed and eight wounded in a Baghdad bomb attack Sunday as Iraqis voted in parliamentary elections, an interior ministry official said.
A total of 10 mortar blasts and four…
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Iraqis on Sunday started voting in their war-shattered nation’s second parliamentary election, as mortars and bombs rocked Baghdad.
Twelve people were killed and eight wounded in a Baghdad bomb attack Sunday as Iraqis voted in parliamentary elections, an interior ministry official said.
A total of 10 mortar blasts and four…
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A Nato supply tanker was partly damaged and its driver received minor injuries when a roadside bomb went off in the Baghbana area of Khuzdar district on Thursday.
According to police, the vehicle containing goods for allied forces in Afghanistan was headed towards Chaman from Karachi on the RCD highway…
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BAGHDAD (AFP) – The Iraqi interior minister said on Thursday he had expelled 250 ex-employees of the American security firm Blackwater, whose guards were charged with killing unarmed civilians in Baghdad.
“We have sent an order to 250 former Blackwater employees, who today are working with other security companies in…
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WASHINGTON – The Pentagon has acknowledged that an American contractor for the Defence Department is missing in Baghdad, saying attempts were being made to recover him.
The acknowledgment came after the League of the Righteous, portrayed in the US media as a Shiite group, posted a statement and video on…
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A suicide attacker driving a minibus on Wednesday killed 20 Shia pilgrims, including women and children, travelling on foot to a shrine city in central Iraq, health and security officials said. The bomber struck a crowd of pilgrims on the outskirts of Karbala, 110 kilometres south of Baghdad, in an…
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) – A female suicide bomber laden with explosives blew herself up on Monday among Shiite pilgrims on the outskirts of the Iraqi capital, killing at least 41 people, security officials said.
Iraq is trying to leave years of bombings, killings and sectarian slaughter behind as it moves to…
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A female suicide bomber blew herself up, killing 13 Shi’ite pilgrims in northeastern Baghdad on Monday and wounding 38 others, the office of Baghdad security spokesman said.
The attack took place as thousands of Shi’ite Muslims flooded the streets at the start of an arduous trek to the southern city…
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BAGHDAD (AFP) – A suicide attacker blew up his car on Tuesday while racing it at Iraq’s forensics headquarters in central Baghdad, killing 18 people, injuring 80 and destroying the building, officials said.
The attack marked another devastating breach of security a day after three huge minibus bombs targeting hotels…
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A suicide car bomber in Baghdad killed at least 17 people in destroyed Iraq’s forensics headquarters on Tuesday, officials said, a day after three huge minibus bombs targeting hotels killed dozens. The explosion in the central neighbourhood of Karrada also injured at least 80 people, with the toll expected to…
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BAGHDAD (AFP) – Three huge and apparently co-ordinated minibus bombs targeted hotels in Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 36 people and wounding 71 less than six weeks before a general election.
Iraqi politicians and US forces have warned of rising violence ahead of the March 7 vote, the second…
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The U.S. Marine Corps is leaving Iraq. The U.S. military says the Marines will formally handover control on Saturday of Iraq’s western desert to the Army during a ceremony at Camp Ramadi, about 70 miles (115 kilometers) west of Baghdad.
The handover marks the end of the Marine mission in…
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ISLAMABAD – United Nations Human Rights Council as well as human rights organisations and activists have been startled with the US court’s decision to acquit Blackwater personnel of Baghdad Traffic Circle massacre.
In an extremely unexpected and hopeless development, the US District Judge Ricardo Urbina had acquitted five Blackwater employees…
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