[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Three boom-mobiles, including a suicide kaboom, and a mortar round killed at least six people on Sunday, most of them in northern Iraq where analysts fear tensions could trigger all-out conflict.The deadliest attacks struck within territory which Iraqi Kurdistan wants to incorporate into its three-province autonomous region in spite of objections from Storied Baghdad
...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate...
Diplomats cite the unresolved row as one of the biggest threats to the country's long-term stability.
In the town of Riyadh, just west of the ethnically mixed city of Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
three coppers were killed and 14 people were maimed when a suicide attacker set off a minibus rigged with explosives outside the police headquarters, police Brigadier General Sarhad Qader said.
Among the maimed in the 10:00 am (0700 GMT) attack were nine coppers, including local police chief Major Mundher Ahmed.
In central Storied Baghdad, a mortar round hit the Allawi neighborhood, killing two people and wounding five, officials said.
Another person was killed and 27 were maimed by two boom-mobiles targeting Shiite Turkmen areas of Tuz Khurmatu, another ethnically diverse town in the disputed territory which stretches from Iraq's eastern border with Iran to its western frontier with Syria.
The row is one of several between the central government and the autonomous Kurdish region, and diplomats and analysts often voice worry that tensions tied to the disputes could spill over into armed conflict.