Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Bomb Attacks Continue In Iraq As Militants Gain In Anbar Province



Bomb Attacks Kill 62 In Iraq, PM Seeks World's Support -- Reuters

(Reuters) - Bombs hit Iraq's capital Baghdad and a village near the northern town of Baquba on Wednesday, killing at least 62 people, police and hospital sources said, as Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki warned that militants were trying to set up an "evil statelet".

In the deadliest incident, a bomb blew up in a funeral tent where mourners were marking the death two days ago of a Sunni Muslim pro-government militiaman, police said. It killed 18 people and wounded 16 in Shatub, a village south of Baquba.

Two years after U.S. troops left Iraq, violence has climbed back to its highest levels since the Sunni-Shi'ite bloodshed of 2006-2007, when tens of thousands of people were killed.

The army is locked in a standoff with Sunni militants who overran Falluja, a city west of Baghdad, more than two weeks ago in a challenge to Maliki's Shi'ite-led government.

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More News On Today's Bomb Attacks In Iraq

Scores Die as Militants in Iraq Unleash Attacks -- New York Times
Iraq bomb blasts kill dozens amid worst violence in five years -- NBC
Dozens killed in Iraq bomb attacks -- BBC
Attacks by Al-Qaeda militants kill at least 62 people in Iraq -- RT
Bombings at Iraqi markets, funeral kill 44 -- USA Today/AP
Iraq Bombings Kill At Least 46 -- Radio Free Europe
Bomb Attacks in Iraq Kill 58 -- Voice of America
Violence in Iraq, including 7 car bombs in Baghdad, kills 42 people -- UPI
Scores die in multiple Iraq explosions -- Al Jazeera
Iraq attacks kill 50 as gunmen make gains in Anbar -- The Telegraph
Iraq forces 'lose more ground' in Anbar -- AFP
Maliki calls for world's help as bombs rock Iraq -- Christian Science Monitor

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