Tag: northern iraq

KIRKUK, Iraq (AFP) – Abdel Hussein al-Lami, whose brother and two nephews were gunned down in the northern Iraqi town of Hawijah, seethes and promises revenge. Nasser Bonyan al-Lami worked with two of his sons selling sandwiches in the Sunni-majority town when gunmen burst into their small eatery and machine-gunned them to death. “It’s a […]

The numbers of causalities in Iraq keeps growing. First we wake up to news of 12 soldiers killed in a Blackhawk helicopter crash in northern Iraq. Nothing has been released yet on what caused the crash but the military is working to get to the crash site. Three marines were killed today in a small […]