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Car bombing at busy Baghdad market kills 12 people

Car bombing at busy Baghdad market kills 12 people

A car bomb ripped through a busy market area in eastern Baghdad on Monday morning, killing at least 12 people, Iraqi officials said. The explosives-laden car went off at the wholesale Jamila market in Baghdad’s Shiite district of Sadr City, a police officer said. A plume of thick black smoke billowed from the area and […]

August 28, 2017 | By | Reply More
2 killed in car bombing in Turkish city, 2 attackers dead

2 killed in car bombing in Turkish city, 2 attackers dead

Suspected Kurdish militants on Thursday opened fire at police who stopped them at a checkpoint in the western city of Izmir before detonating their explosives-laden vehicle, the province’s governor said. Gov. Erol Ayyildiz said preliminary indications pointed to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, which has carried out a string of attacks in the past […]

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Six people killed in PKK car bombing in Turkey’s southeast- deputy PM

Six people killed in PKK car bombing in Turkey’s southeast- deputy PM

Aug  15, – Twenty-one people, some of the police officers, were wounded in the bombing on a busy road between the city of Diyarbakir, the region’s largest, and the district of Bismil, Deputy Prime Ministers Numan Kurtulmus said. A car bomb killed six people including four police officers and a child outside a police station […]

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US special forces kill 10 Islamic extremists in Somalia

US special forces kill 10 Islamic extremists in Somalia

Mar 09, – A Somali intelligence official told The Associated Press that the person they wanted to get was apparently killed during the fight. Hoping to capture a high-profile target, U.S. special forces hopped off helicopters a couple of miles (kilometers) from an al-Shabab-controlled town, slipped through the dark and then got into a fierce […]

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At least 30 dead in bombings south of Damascus- state TV, monitor

At least 30 dead in bombings south of Damascus- state TV, monitor

Feb 21, – The Syrian state broadcaster said a car bombing and two suicide attacks ripped through the area of the Sayyida Zeinab shrine, killing 30 people and wounding dozens of others. At least 30 people were killed Sunday in a series of attacks, including a car bombing, near a Shiite shrine south of the […]

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Bombings kill 13 in Shiite areas of Baghdad

Bombings kill 13 in Shiite areas of Baghdad

Sep 22, – A car bomb detonated near a market in the Ameen area of eastern Baghdad, and a roadside bomb exploded near a restaurant in Shaab in the north of the city. Bombs exploded in two Shiite-majority areas of Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 13 people, security and medical officials said.The two attacks […]

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Car bomb kills 10 in Syria regime bastion Latakia

Car bomb kills 10 in Syria regime bastion Latakia

Sep 02, –”Terrorists detonated a car laden with many explosives at noon (0900 GMT) in Hamam square in Latakia, killing 10 people,” the official SANA news agency reported. Ten people were killed and dozens wounded on Wednesday in a rare car bombing in the Syrian city of Latakia, in the coastal bastion of President Bashar […]

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US drone kills Pakistani Taliban leader

US drone kills Pakistani Taliban leader

Nov 02, – Mehsud, who was on U.S. most-wanted terrorist lists with a $5 million bounty, is believed to have been behind a deadly suicide attack at a CIA base in Afghanistan, a failed car bombing in New York’s Times Square and other brazen assaults in Pakistan that killed thousands of civilians and security forces. […]

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Car bomb in northern Syria kills at least 15

Car bomb in northern Syria kills at least 15

Oct 14, – The bomb went off at a market in the town of Darkoush in Idlib province, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Local Coordination Committees. The marketplace was busy with shoppers buying on the eve of Eid al-Adha, one of the most important Muslims holidays. A car bombing […]

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57 dead after car bombing hit mainly shia areas in Iraq

57 dead after car bombing hit mainly shia areas in Iraq

May 27, BAGHDAD (AP) — The blasts are the latest indication that Iraq’s security is rapidly deteriorating as sectarian tensions exacerbated by months of Sunni-led anti-government protests and the war in neighboring Syria are on the rise. A wave of car bombings tore through mostly Shiite Muslim neighborhoods of the Baghdad area on Monday afternoon, […]

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