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Bombs against Iraqi Sunnis kill 49

Agence France-PresseMay 18, 2013 01:15
Two bombs near a Sunni mosque and another targeting a Sunni funeral procession killed 49 people in Iraq on Friday, officials said, after two days of attacks against Shiites that killed dozens. The surge in violence raises the spectre of tit-for-tat killings common during the height of sectarian bloodletting in Iraq that killed tens of thousands of people, and comes at a time of simmering tension between the country's Sunni minority and Shiite majority.

Bombs against Iraqi Sunnis kill 51

Agence France-PresseMay 17, 2013 14:01
Bombs targeting Sunnis, including two near a mosque and one at a funeral procession, killed 51 people in Iraq on Friday, officials said, after dozens died in two days of attacks on Shiites. The violence raises the spectre of tit-for-tat killings common during the height of sectarian bloodletting in Iraq that killed tens of thousands of people, and comes at a time of simmering tension between the country's Sunni minority and Shiite majority.

Bombs, mosque attack kill 17 in Iraqi capital: police

May 7, 2013 11:08
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least 17 people were killed by three bombs and a grenade attack on a mosque in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Monday, medics and police said. Unidentified assailants threw hand grenades at Sunni Muslim worshippers as they left a mosque on Monday evening, killing six people, police and medics said. Earlier in the day, two car bombs exploded near police checkpoints at the entrance to the Shi'ite district of Hussainiya in the north of the city, killing one policeman and seven civilians.

Iraq car bombs kill nine

Agence France-PresseApril 29, 2013 06:00
Three car bombs exploded south of Baghdad on Monday, killing nine people and wounding 70 others, police said, the latest attacks in a seven-day wave of violence that has left more than 230 people dead across Iraq. In the deadliest attack on Monday, two car bombs exploded in Amara in south Iraq, killing seven people and wounding 45, a senior police officer and a doctor said. A third car bomb exploded in Diwaniyah, also south of Baghdad, killing two people and wounding 25, police Brigadier General Abduljalil al-Assadi and a doctor said.

Iraq car bombs kill nine

Agence France-PresseApril 29, 2013 04:00
Three car bombs exploded south of Baghdad on Monday, killing nine people and wounding more than 50, police said. The attacks are the latest in a wave of violence that has killed more than 230 people across Iraq in seven days. In the deadliest attack on Monday, two car bombs exploded in Amara in south Iraq, killing seven people and wounding 34, a senior police officer and a medical official said. A third car bomb exploded in Diwaniyah, also south of Baghdad, killing two people and wounding 20, police Brigadier General Abduljalil al-Assadi said.

Bombings at mosques push Iraq death toll to 195

Agence France-PresseApril 26, 2013 08:31
Bombs exploded at four Sunni mosques in the Baghdad area after prayers Friday, killing four people and raising the death toll from a four-day wave of violence in Iraq to 195, officials said. Iraqi security forces also began moving back into the northern town of Sulaiman Bek after gunmen who seized it withdrew. The bombings at three Sunni mosques in Baghdad and a fourth north of the capital, which killed at least four people and wounded 50, came after more than a dozen people were killed in attacks on Sunni mosques on Tuesday.

Bombs at Sunni mosques in Baghdad area kill four

Agence France-PresseApril 26, 2013 07:47
Bombs exploded at four Sunni mosques in and around Baghdad on Friday, killing four people and wounding 50, an interior ministry official and medics said. The bombers struck after the main weekly prayers as four days of violence that have killed more than 190 people raised fears of a return to all-out sectarian conflict. A bomb exploded inside Al-Kubaisi mosque in south Baghdad, killing four people and wounding 36, while bombs near Al-Shaheed Yusif and Malik al-Ashtar mosques in the north of the capital wounded at least 11, the official and medics said.

Bombs at Baghdad Sunni mosque kill four

Agence France-PresseApril 23, 2013 05:15
Two roadside bombs that went off as Sunni Muslim worshippers were leaving dawn prayers in south Baghdad on Tuesday killed at least four people, officials said. The twin blasts struck at around 5:00 am (0200 GMT) in the predominantly Sunni neighbourhood of Dura at the Al-Arqam bin al-Arqam mosque, an interior ministry official said. At least four people were killed and 14 wounded in the explosions, the official and a medic at a nearby hospital said.

Suicide bomber hits Iraq Shiite shrine city of Karbala

March 3, 2013 12:30
A suicide bomber struck in an area between major shrines in the Iraqi Shiite holy city of Karbala on Sunday, wounding 10 people, while other attacks left five dead, officials said. Jamal al-Din Shahristani, an official at the Imam Hussein shrine, said an engineer working on a project between the site and the Imam Abbas shrine blew himself up, causing casualties. A police colonel and employee of a Karbala hospital put the toll from the bombing in the city south of Baghdad at 10 wounded.
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