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| Iraq attacks kill 14 as 2014 toll tops 4,000 |
| 2014-05-29 |
| [DAWN] Attacks across Iraq killed 14 people on Wednesday, the latest in a months-long surge in violence that has left more than 4,000 people dead this year. The shootings and bombings struck in Storied Baghdad and restive parts of the north and west, leaving dozens more maimed, security and medical officials said. The protracted spike in bloodletting has fuelled fears that Iraq is slipping back into the all-out conflict that plagued it in 2006 and 2007, when a brutal sectarian war left tens of thousands dead. In Wednesday's deadliest violence, a series of 11 bombings in the ethnically-mixed town of Tuz Khurmatu killed five people, four of them members of the same family, and maimed 11, officials said. The blasts targeted homes belonging to ethnic Turkmen in the town, which is also populated by Arabs and Kurds and lies in a stretch of territory that Kurdish leaders want to incorporate in their autonomous region in the north over the objections of the central government. Insurgents often exploit poor communication between Arab and Kurdish security forces to carry out attacks in the area. Shelling in the myrmidon-held city of Fallujah, ... the City of Mosques, which might have somthing to do with why it's not called Center of Prosperityor a really nice place to raise your kids... a short drive west of Storied Baghdad, killed three more people, a day after New York-based Human Rights Watch ... dedicated to bitching about human rights violations around the world... criticised the Iraqi government for possibly violating the laws of war by shelling the city's main hospital. All of Fallujah and parts of nearby Anbar bustling provincial capital Ramadi have been out of government hands since the beginning of the year. Security forces have shelled Fallujah repeatedly for several months, and while they insist they are targeting myrmidon hideouts, human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... groups and residents say civilians are bearing the brunt of the bombardment. Elsewhere on Wednesday, attacks in the northern provinces of Kirkuk and Nineveh left three people dead, while shootings and bombings in and around Storied Baghdad killed three more. |
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