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Iraq Sunni Mosques Close over Unrest
[An Nahar] Attacks mostly targeting Sunni-majority areas of Iraq killed 13 people on Friday as the minority community shuttered countless mosques nationwide, complaining that security forces were failing to provide adequate protection.The move follows a months-long surge in bloodshed, with the latest wave of violence leaving nearly 200 people dead in just the past week, that has forced Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... to appeal for international help in combating militancy just months before its first general election in four years. Officials have also 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 Friday struck Sunni-majority areas in and around Storied Baghdad, and the main northern city of djinn-infested Mosul, leaving at least 13 dead and 25 others maimed, security and medical officials said. Four separate shootings and bombings in the capital, including one adjacent to a Sunni mosque, killed at least six people, while blasts in the nearby Sunni towns of Abu Ghraib and Tarmiyah left three others dead. Further attacks near djinn-infested Mosul, a mostly Sunni city in restive Nineveh province, killed four people -- two soldiers and two coppers. Posted by: Fred 2013-11-23 |
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