[Al Ahram] Iraqi security forces hunted for faceless myrmidons and weapons in the Storied Baghdad...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate...
area on Sunday, while attacks killed six people, including three soldiers and a judge, officials said.
Iraqi authorities are struggling to contain the worst violence to hit the country in five years. About one thousand people died in attacks last month.
The defence ministry said security forces locked away
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32 people wanted under an anti-terrorism law and tossed in the slammer
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a further 141 suspects over a period of 24 hours, during operation "Avenge the Martyrs" in areas north and west of Storied Baghdad.
They also destroyed three "terrorist hideouts" and seized a boom-mobile factory, weapons, ammunition and explosives, a ministry statement said, adding that similar operations were conducted in other areas.
But more deadly attacks, which security forces have so far failed to stem, struck on Sunday.
In the northern province of Nineveh, a roadside kaboom went
kaboom!near an army patrol, killing three soldiers. The blast, about 60 kilometres (35 miles) south of the placid provincial capital djinn-infested Mosul, also maimed four soldiers.
And another bombing targeted a police patrol further south, wounding three coppers.
In Tikrit, north of Storied Baghdad, a boom-mobile went
kaboom!near a judge's house, killing him and severely wounding his wife, while another blast in the Iraqi capital itself killed one person and maimed five.
And gunnies killed a man and maimed his son west of the northern city of Kirkuk.
The attacks came a day after violence in Iraq killed 24 people, including nine soldiers.