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| Iraq |
| Bombs in Iraqi Shia provinces kill 15 |
| 2013-07-15 |
| [Dawn] A string of kabooms in predominantly Shia provinces of Iraq killed at least 15 people on Sunday, police and medics said. The largest kaboom took place in the southern oil hub of Basra, where at least eight people were killed when a bomb went kaboom!near the headquarters of a Shia political party. The violence is part of a sustained campaign of bully boy attacks since the start of the year that has prompted fears of wider conflict in a country where ethnic Kurds and Shia and Sunni Moslems have yet to find a stable power-sharing compromise. It was not clear who was behind Saturday's kabooms, but Sunni Islamist bad turbans, including the al Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq, have been regaining strength in recent months, security sources say. Sectarian tensions have been inflamed by the civil war in neighbouring Syria, which is fast becoming a region-wide proxy war, drawing in Shia and Sunni fighters from Iraq and beyond to fight on opposite sides of the conflict. On Saturday, two kabooms near Sunni mosques in Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... killed at least 23 people who had gathered to pray after breaking their daily fast for the Moslem holy month of Ramadan. More than 300 people have been killed so far in July, according to the violence monitoring group Iraq Body Count. |
| Posted by:Fred |