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Iraq
Nine Dead as Iraq Struggles to Stem Surge in Unrest
2013-11-23
[An Nahar] A series of bombings and shootings, mostly in Sunni-majority areas of Storied Baghdad
...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate...
and northern Iraq, killed nine people Friday as security forces struggle to stem a protracted surge in bloodshed.

The attacks, which followed consecutive days in which more than 100 people were killed overall, are the latest in a flare-up that has prompted Storied Baghdad to appeal for international help combating militancy just months before Iraq's first general election in four years.

Officials have voiced concern over a resurgent al-Qaeda emboldened by the civil war in neighboring Syria which has provided the jihadist network's front groups with increased room to plan operations in Iraq.

Attacks on Thursday struck in and around Storied Baghdad and the main northern city of djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
.

Explosions in the capital and the predominantly Sunni Arab town of Tarmiyah just to the north left five people dead, including two anti-Qaeda Sunni militiamen, security and medical officials said.

Further attacks near Mosul killed four people -- two soldiers and two coppers.
Posted by:Fred

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