Iraq violence leaves dozens dead
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2014-04-18
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Originally published on November 8, 2013
A local Iraqi leader in Tikrit was killed on Thursday (November 7) in in one of several violent attacks across the country that resulted in more than a dozen deaths. Gunmen burst into the man's home, killing him and five of his family members as they slept before planting explosives and blowing up the house, according to police.
The man led a local Awakening Council, which is made up mostly of Sunni fighters who turned against al Qaeda in late 2006. The movement is backed by the United States and is a target for jihadists.
Also on Thursday, suicide bombers who blew themselves up minutes apart at an Iraqi base in Tarmiya, north of Baghdad, killed at least 16 soldiers, police and medics said. The first attacker detonated his explosives at the main gate of the military base, and the second struck when a group of soldiers gathered to help the wounded.
Reuters reports, "security forces are a prime target for Sunni Islamist militants linked to al Qaeda who have been regaining momentum in an insurgency against Iraq's Shi'ite-led government this year.
"Two other soldiers were killed in a separate suicide car bombing on a checkpoint in the city of Ramadi in Iraq's western province of Anbar, which shares a border with Syria and is a stronghold of al Qaeda's Iraqi affiliate.
"A further eight people were killed in car and roadside bombings across Iraq on Thursday. One attack targeted a district of Baghdad inhabited mainly by Shi'ite Muslims, who are viewed as apostates by hardline Sunni Islamists such as al Qaeda."
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A local Iraqi leader in Tikrit was killed on Thursday (November 7) in in one of several violent attacks across the country that resulted in more than a dozen deaths. Gunmen burst into the man's home, killing him and five of his family members as they slept before planting explosives and blowing up the house, according to police.
The man led a local Awakening Council, which is made up mostly of Sunni fighters who turned against al Qaeda in late 2006. The movement is backed by the United States and is a target for jihadists.
Also on Thursday, suicide bombers who blew themselves up minutes apart at an Iraqi base in Tarmiya, north of Baghdad, killed at least 16 soldiers, police and medics said. The first attacker detonated his explosives at the main gate of the military base, and the second struck when a group of soldiers gathered to help the wounded.
Reuters reports, "security forces are a prime target for Sunni Islamist militants linked to al Qaeda who have been regaining momentum in an insurgency against Iraq's Shi'ite-led government this year.
"Two other soldiers were killed in a separate suicide car bombing on a checkpoint in the city of Ramadi in Iraq's western province of Anbar, which shares a border with Syria and is a stronghold of al Qaeda's Iraqi affiliate.
"A further eight people were killed in car and roadside bombings across Iraq on Thursday. One attack targeted a district of Baghdad inhabited mainly by Shi'ite Muslims, who are viewed as apostates by hardline Sunni Islamists such as al Qaeda."
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