Saturday, 25 May 2013 23:43
Posted by Muhammad Iqbal
BAGHDAD: A roadside bomb attack on an Iraqi army convoy and a car bomb targeting pilgrims killed 10 people and wounded 19 on Saturday, security officers and doctors said.Iraq is struggling to contain a wave of violence that has killed more than 430 people so far in May the second month in a row in which over 400 people died in unrest.A roadside bomb hit an army convoy near Heet, a town in Anbar province, west of Baghdad, killing five soldiers including a lieutenant colonel, army Brigadier General Haqi Ismail and a doctor said.The security situation in Anbar, home to two of the main centres of Sunni anti-government protests that broke out almost five months ago, has deteriorated sharply.And a car bomb targeting a bus carrying pilgrims detonated on the highway from Balad to Samarra, killing five people and wounding 19, police and a doctor said.That attack followed another car ...
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BAGHDAD: A roadside bomb attack on an Iraqi army convoy and a car bomb targeting pilgrims killed 10 people and wounded 19 on Saturday, security officers and doctors said.Iraq is struggling to contain a wave of violence that has killed more than 430 people so far in May the second month in a row in which over 400 people died in unrest.A roadside bomb hit an army convoy near Heet, a town in Anbar province, west of Baghdad, killing five soldiers including a lieutenant colonel, army Brigadier General Haqi Ismail and a doctor said.The security situation in Anbar, home to two of the main centres of Sunni anti-government protests that broke out almost five months ago, has deteriorated sharply.And a car bomb targeting a bus carrying pilgrims detonated on the highway from Balad to Samarra, killing five people and wounding 19, police and a doctor said.That attack followed another car ...
DAMASCUS: Syrian rebels kept up resistance on Saturday to a massive assault on a strategic central town as pressure grew on the opposition to attend a peace conference after the regime agreed to do so.The main opposition National Coalition has met in Istanbul for three days trying to overcome deep divisions over Russian and US proposals to convene a conference to which representatives of President Bashar al-Assad would be invited without any formal precondition for ...
LONDON: British counter-terrorism police arrested a man at the BBC's headquarters after an interviewee said that security services tried to recruit one of the two suspects in the murder of a soldier in London.Michael Adebolajo, 28 and Michael Adebowale, 22, are under armed guard in hospital after being shot and arrested by police following the murder of 25-year-old Afghan war veteran Lee Rigby on Wednesday. They have not yet been charged.A man identified by the ...
AMMAN: More than 15,000 soldiers from 18 different countries will take part in a joint military exercise in Jordan in the coming weeks, a military official said on Saturday.Jordan's armed forces will host the exercise, "Eager Lion 2013", with troops from "friendly countries", including the United States, taking part, the official Petra news agency cited the official as saying. They will participate in battlefield, logistics and humanitarian exercises alongside troops from Britain, Bahrain, Canada, Czech ...
MOSCOW: Russia's announcement that the Damascus regime has agreed to attend an international peace conference on the Syrian crisis has been met by scepticism among the fractured opponents of President Bashar al-Assad.Russian foreign ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said Friday that Moscow had received the Damascus government's assurance it would take part in the talks, during a visit this week by Syria's Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Muqdad."We note with satisfaction that we have received an agreement ...
BRUSSELS: European leaders have decided youth unemployment and the risk of social breakdown are among the toughest challenges they face and finding solutions will be a top priority for the coming months.In a letter released late on Friday, European Council President Herman Van Rompuy said youth unemployment was one of the most pressing issues for the 27-member European Union."The June European Council will be an opportunity to mobilise efforts at all levels around one shared ...
