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IRAQ WARS
118 killed in bloody two days for Iraq
by Staff Writers
Baghdad (AFP) April 24, 2013


Baghdad car bomb kills at least seven: officials
Baghdad (AFP) April 24, 2013 - A car bomb in the Iraqi capital killed at least seven people and wounded 23 on Wednesday, security and medical officials said.

The bomb exploded in a mobile phone market in Al-Husseiniyah in east Baghdad, they said, bringing the toll since Tuesday from a country-wide wave of violence to 125 dead and 268 wounded.

Violence in Iraq has fallen significantly from its peak in 2006 and 2007, but attacks remain common, killing 271 people last month, according to AFP figures based on security and medical sources.

Gunmen take control of Iraqi town: officials
Kirkuk, Iraq (AFP) April 24, 2013 - Gunmen seized control of Sulaiman Bek, a town north of Baghdad, following deadly fighting with Iraqi security forces on Wednesday, officials said.

Security forces have completely withdrawn from the area, which is now under the control of the gunmen, Shalal Abdul Baban, a local administrative official responsible for the area, told AFP.

Niyazi Maamar Oghlu, a member of the provincial council in Salaheddin province, where Sulaiman Bek is located, also said authorities had lost control of the town.

Both officials said a strategic road between Baghdad and Tuz Khurmatu, a town to the north of Sulaiman Bek, had been cut.

Clashes between security forces and protesters near Hawijah, in northern Iraq, left 53 people dead, and sparked a wave of revenge attacks in which dozens more have died.

Protesters have taken to the streets in Sunni-majority areas for more than four months, calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and decrying the alleged targeting of their minority community by the Shiite-led authorities.

The wave of violence that began on Tuesday is the deadliest to date linked to the protests.

A bloody two days of violence in Iraq left 118 people dead, with 99 of them killed in clashes and attacks involving security forces, protesters and their supporters, officials said on Wednesday.

More than 240 people were wounded in the same period, most of them in protest-related unrest, which prompted two Sunni ministers to quit and has sent tensions in the country soaring.

The violence, which began with clashes at a protest site in northern Iraq after security forces moved in, is the deadliest so far linked to demonstrations in Sunni areas that erupted more than four months ago.

Protesters have called for the resignation of Shiite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and railed against the alleged targeting of their community by the authorities.

In the deadliest violence on Wednesday, five soldiers and seven gunmen were killed and 63 people, including 20 soldiers, wounded in fighting in the Sulaiman Bek area north of Baghdad, security officers and an official said.

Iraqi MP Ashwaq al-Jaf said dozens of people were wounded in air attacks by the Iraqi military in the area, and a high-ranking army officer confirmed helicopters were used in the fighting.

In other violence that officers said was also apparently in revenge for Tuesday's clashes, gunmen attacked a Sahwa anti-Al-Qaeda militia checkpoint in Khales northeast of Baghdad, killing four militiamen and wounding a fifth, a police lieutenant colonel and a doctor said.

Gunmen also wounded a policeman in the northern city of Mosul, while a soldier was wounded in another shooting to its south, police and a doctor said. Three gunmen were also killed in the Mosul attack.

Apparently unrelated violence in Tarmiyah and Mosul, north of Baghdad, and Fallujah, west of the capital, killed four more people and wounded at least 10, officials said.

The trouble began early on Tuesday when clashes broke out after security forces moved into an area near Hawijah in northern Iraq, where protests have been held since January.

The initial fighting killed 53 people, while a series of revenge attacks left another 27 dead on Tuesday, and 15 more were killed in apparently unrelated unrest.

Two Sunni ministers quit in the wake of the initial violence, bringing to four the number of Sunni cabinet members who have resigned since March 1.

On Wednesday, mourners buried dozens of people killed the day before.

Hundreds of mourners walked on the main road past the provincial council building in Kirkuk city alongside vehicles carrying 34 coffins.

They chanted "We sacrifice for you, Iraq" and "We will take revenge for the martyrs of Hawijah," continuing on to Hawijah, to the west of the city, where the dead were buried.

"What happened was a massacre, and the situation is catastrophic and dangerous, and we should work on easing the tension," said Kirkuk deputy governor Rakan Said.

A protest organiser and a doctor also said on Wednesday that two Iraqi soldiers who were kidnapped by demonstrators the day before near Ramadi, west of Baghdad, have been released.

Protest organiser Abdulrazzaq al-Shammari said the soldiers were handed over to a hospital in the city, and the doctor said one of them who was wounded was still in hospital, while the other was released.

Shammari also said that the demonstrators were demanding that soldiers withdraw from all cities in Anbar province, where Ramadi is located, and stay in their main bases.

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Deadly fighting hit Kirkuk province in north Iraq on Tuesday, with 27 people killed in clashes between protesters and security forces while 13 gunmen died in revenge attacks on the army, officers said. Education Minister Mohammed Ali Tamim, a Sunni from Hawijah near where the clashes took place, resigned in the wake of the violence, becoming the third Sunni minister to do so since March. ... read more


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