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Residents gather at the site of a car bomb attack in Baghdad
Credit: Reuters

More than 1,000 killed in Iraq violence in May

More than 1,000 people were killed in violence in Iraq in May, making it the deadliest month since the sectarian slaughter of 2006-07, the United Nations said on Saturday, in a surge stoking fears of a return to civil war.

Posted in International, News
Tagged Al Qaeda, Baghdad, death toll, Iraq, Shi'ite | Reply
A view of the Square 55 market can be seen from a building heavily damaged by fighting between the U.S. military and the Mahdi Army, forces loyal to Iraqi Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadrforces in the Sadr City section of Baghdad.
Credit: The Washington Post/Getty Images

Ten years since Iraq invasion

It has been ten years since President George W. Bush announced in a somber TV address on March 19, 2003 that the United States would be invading Iraq.

Posted in National
Tagged Baghdad, invasion, Iraq, Iraq war, ten years | Reply
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