Tag: khalis

This is very interesting. Last night Joe on AmericaBLOG posted this from a Washington Post article: Five suicide bombers struck Shiite marketplaces in northeast Baghdad and a town north of the capital at nightfall Thursday, killing at least 122 people and wounding more than 150 in one of Iraq’s deadliest days in years. The savage […]

Just today: At least three suicide car bombs exploded in a mainly Shi’ite town north of Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 40, police and hospital officials said. The blasts in Khalis, 80 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad, follow a surge in sectarian violence outside the Iraqi capital that has killed scores. One car […]