Suicide bomber kills in northern Iraq
At least three people were killed and 15 wounded on Thursday when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a barber's shop popular with police in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, police and hospital sources said. The attack is the latest and a wave of bombings across the country in recent weeks which have raised fears that Iraq could slip back into secta…
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Iraq Militias Target Youths
The groups say militant Shia have been encouraged in the wave of attacks by the interior ministry, following a long-standing campaign of gay-bashing. A statement on its website claimed emos were "devil-worshippers". Gangs of youths have devised a particularly brutal method of killing those they regard as "emos", in the West a term for yo…
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Iraqi Christians’ Slow Decline
Iraq’s dwindling Christians, driven from their homes by attacks and intimidation, are beginning to abandon the havens they had found in the country’s north, discouraged by unemployment and a creeping fear that the violence they had fled was catching up to them. Their quiet exodus to Turkey, Jordan, Europe and the United States is the latest chapter of a se…
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36 mass graves found
Thirty-six mass graves containing more than 600 bodies have been found in northern-eastern Iraq over the last four years, a local rights group said Saturday. The graves were found in the province of Diyala that was gripped by bloody turmoil from 2006-2008, when armed groups took control of the area. Thirty-two of the graves contained the bodies of victims o…
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