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Officials: Bomb kills 3 Sunni worshippers in Iraq

A bombing at a Sunni mosque near Baghdad on Friday killed three worshippers and wounded seven others, police said, reflecting rising sectarian tensions across Iraq.Insurgents have been targeting Sunni mosques following a deadly crackdown by security forces on a Sunni protest site in Hawija town last month. Sunnis were protesting perceived discrimination by the Shiite-dominated Baghdad government.The surge in sectarian-based fighting raises concerns that the nation is on a path back to the fighting of the last decade that approached a state of civil war.Police said a bomb went off after Friday mid-day Muslim prayers as worshippers were leaving the al-Sultan mosque in Mahaweel, 55 kilometers (35 miles) south of the capital.Also Friday, police said a bomb explosion struck an army patrol in western Iraq, killing one soldier and wounding two others.Hospital officials confirmed the casualties. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to reporter...

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    A homicide car bomber struck a police checkpoint in a small town west of Baghdad on Monday, killing at least three people in the latest attack in a region that had o...

  2. Iraqi Military Puts Anbar Province Under Curfew

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  3. Bombs Kill 23 in Iraq's Western Anbar Province

    Staggered explosions Wednesday killed 23 people — 13 of them policemen — and wounded an Iraqi provincial governor, officials said, in the worst violence in months to...

  4. Bombs Kill 23 in Iraq's Western Anbar Province

    Staggered explosions Wednesday killed 23 people — 13 of them policemen — and wounded an Iraqi provincial governor, officials said, in the worst violence in months to...

  5. Officials say 17 killed in explosion near government offices in Iraq's Anbar province

    A car bomb exploded Sunday outside government offices in a province west of the Iraqi capital, killing 17 people, officials said. It was the latest deadly hit on a f...

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  1. Officials say 17 killed in twin blasts near government offices in Iraq's Anbar province

    Officials say 17 killed in twin blasts near government offices in Iraq's Anbar province .

  2. Commander Downplays Gloomy Report on Anbar Province

    The senior commander of U.S. forces in western Iraq on Tuesday tried to play down a classified intelligence report indicating that American troops had failed to damp...

  3. Sunni Leaders Vow to Fight Terrorism in Anbar Province

    Sunni sheiks and community leaders met Saturday in this city west of Baghdad and pledged to fight terrorism and restore peace and security to Anbar province — for ye...

  4. Marine is Killed During Combat in Iraq's Anbar Province

    A U.S. Marine was killed in fighting in Iraq's restive Anbar province, the military reported Monday, raising the death toll among U.S. service members this month to ...

  5. Iraq revokes licenses of Al-Jazeera and other TV channels, alleges sectarian agenda

    Iraqi authorities announced Sunday that they had revoked the operating licenses of pan-Arab broadcaster Al-Jazeera and nine other satellite TV channels, alleging tha...

  6. Iraq hangs 21 Al Qaeda-linked prisoners

    Iraq has executed 21 prisoners convicted on terrorism charges and links to Al Qaeda, the Justice Ministry said Wednesday, setting off fresh criticism from an interna...

  7. Iraqi protesters wounded after warning shots fired

    An official in Iraq's western Anbar province says two people have been wounded after bodyguards for a senior Sunni politician began shooting to disperse angry anti-g...

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