Iraq bombings kill 10: officials

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March 18, 2014 07:41PM

Iraqis gather around smoke rising from a building following a double car bomb explosion southeast of Baghdad on March 18, 2014. (AFP PHOTO/STR)

BAGHDAD: Attacks in Baghdad and across central Iraq, including seven car bombs, killed at least 10 people on Tuesday amid a surge in violence ahead of a general election next month.

The blasts, which also wounded nearly 50 people, come with Iraq suffering its worst level of violence since 2008, when the country was emerging from brutal sectarian violence between Sunni and Shiite Muslims.

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Bombings in Iraq kill at least 42

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BAGHDAD March 5, 2014
By SINAN SALAHEDDIN and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press


Bombings targeting shoppers across central Iraq and clashes near the militant-held city of Fallujah killed at least 42 people Thursday, authorities said.

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UN reports 703 deaths in Iraq during February

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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 2014

Violence continues in the country after a crackdown 10 months ago on a Sunni protest camp. An additional 1,381 people were wounded.

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Masked Sunni Muslims gunmen take their positions with their weapons during their patrol in the city of Falluja

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BAGHDAD -- The United Nations said Saturday that violence across Iraq in February killed 703 people, a death toll higher than the year before as the country faces a rising wave of militant attacks rivaling the sectarian bloodshed that followed the U.S.-led invasion.

The figures issued by the U.N.'s mission to Iraq is close to January's death toll of 733, showing that a surge of violence that began 10 months ago with a government crackdown on a Sunni protest camp is not receding. Meanwhile, attacks Saturday killed at least five people and wounded 14, authorities said.

Attacks in February killed 564 civilians and 139 security force members in February, the U.N. said. The violence wounded 1,381, the vast majority civilians, it said. That compares to February 2013, when attacks killed 418 civilians and wounded 704.

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