Al Qaeda in Iraq killed eight workers in a bombing south of Baghdad, a counter-terrorism officer in an IED attack near Babil, and the spokesman for Ninewa province in a shooting. Four al Qaeda fighters and two policemen were killed in a clash south of Fallujah.
Al Qaeda in Iraq killed five policemen in separate IED attacks in Ramadi and Fallujah. Security forces captured two al Qaeda fighters south of Samarra. Tribal leaders in Diyala denounced al Qaeda.
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At least 38 Iraqis were killed in a series of 10 bombings throughout the capital of Baghdad. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (al Qaeda in Iraq) claimed credit for last month’s suicide assault in Irbil as well as attacks on police and military bases in Anbar.
Al Qaeda in Iraq killed at least 27 Iraqis in a series of suicide bombings in northern and central Iraq. In Qabak, a Shia Turkmen village near Tal Afar, two suicide bombers attacked an elementary school and a police station, killing 12 children, the principal, and two policemen. In Waziriyah, a suicide bomber killed 12 […]
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Al Qaeda in Iraq killed at least 48 Iraqis in a series of attacks in Baghdad, Balad, and Mosul. In Baghdad, a suicide bomber killed 24 people, including four people, in an attack that targeted Shia worshippers. In Balad, a suicide bomber killed 13 people outside of a cafe.
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A suicide bomber killed three Iraqi soldiers in an attack in Hit. Al Qaeda in Iraq killed an Awakening leader in an IED attack in Bayji. Security forces arrested nine wanted men in Baghdad.
Insurgents killed five people in a bombing at a soccer field in Madeen and two policemen and a civilian in attacks in Mosul. Security forces killed a suicide bomber in Mosul. Wanted members of al Qaeda in Iraq are joining the Al Nusrah Front in Syria.
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Al Qaeda in Iraq shot down an Iraqi Army helicopter as the military was conducting an operation in the desert near Bayji; four Iraqi soldiers and were killed. Al Qaeda killed 14 Iraqis in attacks throughout the country. Security forces captured two insurgents as they planted an IED in Fallujah.
Reporting from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights shows that al Qaeda’s two affiliates inside Syria continue to collude despite a leadership dispute that became public in April.
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A three-man al Qaeda suicide team killed five Iraqi soldiers, including a colonel, in Tikrit. Al Qaeda fighters killed an Awakening member in Abu Ghraib. Nearly 900 Iraqis were killed in terror attacks in September.
Al Qaeda in Iraq killed at least 55 Iraqis and wounded more than 150 in a series of coordinated bombings throughout the capital of Baghdad. More than 20 car bombs were detonated in mainly Shia neighborhoods throughout the capital. One blast occurred outside a Sunni mosque.
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A suicide bomber killed 40 people and wounded 50 more in an attack at a Shia mosque in an attack in Mussayab. A pair of suicide bombers killed four people and wounded 29 more in an attack in Irbil.
AL Qaeda in Iraq killed six people in attacks in Tarmiyah and Baghdad that targeted police and military personnel and their families. Security forces captured two al Qaeda leaders during raids in Baghdad and Ninewa.
Ten people were killed in bombings and attacks throughout Iraq; seven of those were killed in bombings outside of two Sunni mosques in Baghdad. Ninewa province’s tribal council renounced al Qaeda and vowed to support the Iraqi security forces.
Al Qaeda in Iraq killed 25 people in attacks throughout the country. In one attack, seven civilians and two soldiers were killed in a suicide assault on a district center in Hawija. Security forces killed five al Qaeda fighters near the Syrian border and four more in south of Mosul, and detained four Ansar al […]
Al Qaeda in Iraq killed nine policemen in a suicide assault and attacks on police and military bases in Haditha. Security forces detained an escaped inmate from the July Abu Ghraib prison break in Anbar, and two al Qaeda fighters as they were planting an IED outside the home of an Awakening leader in Samarra.
The Islamic State of Iraqi and the Levant killed nine policemen in Haditiha in a coordinated assault on police and military bases.
Two bombs planted in a funeral tent in a predominately Sunni neighborhood in Baghdad killed 16 people. Two people were killed in an IED attack that targeted an ambulance in the capital.
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A suicide bomber killed 16 Iraqis and wounded 35 more in an attack at a funeral in Baghdad. Two Iraqi policemen were killed in attacks in Tikrit and two soldiers were killed in a bombing in Mosul.
Al Qaeda in Iraq killed more than 70 people in a series of suicide attacks and bombings in Baghdad and Bayji. In one of the attacks, in Bayji, a suicide assault team killed seven policemen and penetrated the perimeter of a special forces base.
More than 70 Iraqis are killed in a series of suicide assaults and bombings in Baghdad and Bayji as the country teeters on the brink of civil war.