Whether it is a civil war, insurgent violence, an unjust war, or a war on terror - no one argues that there is a "war" in Iraq. Track the latest news and share opinions about what should be done to curb violence.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Attacks killed at least 23 people across Iraq on Thursday, including pilgrims preparing for a major Shi'ite religious ritual and a provincial leader, police and officials said. Na'ma Jassim al-Bakri, a member of southern Babel province's governing council, was among the 12 people killed in twin bomb attacks at a bus and taxi terminal in the provincial capital Hilla, said Abu Ahmed al-Basri, another Babel councilor. Up to 91 people were believed to be wounded, including... Read Full Story
Christmas is bumping into Shiite Islam's most mournful ceremony this year, forcing Iraqi Christians to keep their celebrations under tighter wraps than usual. Midnight Mass will again be celebrated in daylight across Baghdad, and security around churches is heavier for a community that's been threatened by sectarian violence since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion. A bombing this week targeting a 1,200-year-old church in Mosul, killing two passers-by, underscored their concerns. But this year... Read Full Story
A suicide bomber with a horse and cart detonated himself Thursday in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, killing eight people and wounding five, a senior police officer said. The explosion happened around 7.15 pm (1445 GMT) outside the Kandahar provincial health ministry directorate and a guesthouse sometimes used by foreigners, deputy provincial police chief Sazel Ahmad Shairzad said. "Five of the dead were killed while sitting in a car nearby," he said. The other three dead were passers... Read Full Story
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber killed eight Afghan civilians on Thursday when he detonated his explosives outside a guest house frequented by foreigners in southern Kandahar city, a police official said. "Police spotted the suicide bomber and fired at him but he managed to detonate his explosives. As a result eight people were martyred," senior police officer Fazl Ahmad Sherzai told reporters in Kandahar. Two police, who were guarding the Continental, a guest house... Read Full Story
A pre-Christmas attack on a church killed two people in the Iraqi city of Mosul Wednesday while a Sunni Arab candidate died in a bombing in Fallujah, the first such murder ahead of March polls. They were among 13 people killed in violence across the country, despite security forces ramping up their presence ahead of Christmas and the Shiite commemoration ceremonies of Ashura. In Mosul, two people were killed and five others wounded Wednesday morning when "a handcart used to carry flour, left... Read Full Story
A suicide bomber targeted a security checkpoint in Pakistan's Peshawar on Thursday, killing four people in the second such attack in as many days in the flashpoint northwestern city. Attacks are escalating in the city of 2.5 million people on the edge of Pakistan's tribal belt on the Afghan border, an area Washington brands the most dangerous place on Earth and the chief sanctuary of Al-Qaeda. The bomber targeted a checkpoint in the army cantonment, blowing himself up on one of Peshawar's... Read Full Story
BERLIN (Reuters) - The head of Germany's Protestant churches described the war in Afghanistan on Thursday as unjust and called for a pullout of the 4,400 German troops taking part in the NATO-led operation against the Taliban. The comments by Margot Kaessmann, head of the EKD -- an umbrella group for 22 Churches that encompass Germany's 25 million Protestants -- added to growing political momentum against a troop increase which Berlin is considering. "There is no just war. I cannot... Read Full Story
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least 10 people, including a local leader, were killed in twin bomb attacks on Thursday south of Baghdad, Iraqi officials said. Seventy people were wounded in the attacks at a bus and taxi terminal in central Hilla. Provincial council member Na'ma Jassim al-Bakri was among the dead, said Abu Ahmed al-Basri, a fellow councilor in Babel province, of which Hilla is capital. A hospital official confirmed the death toll, which had risen from five reported earlier by Iraqi... Read Full Story
A teenage suicide bomber attacked a Pakistan journalists' club Tuesday, killing three people in an unprecedented assault on the media in a country plagued by Islamist insurgency. Strapped with explosives packed with nails, the young man walked up to the gate of the press club in the northwestern city of Peshawar and blew himself up as police tried to stop him entering the building, officials said. Attacks on civilian targets are escalating in the city of 2.5 million people on the edge of... Read Full Story
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Huge crowds of Iranians chanted anti-government slogans during the funeral of leading dissident cleric Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri in the holy Shi'ite city of Qom on Monday, websites reported. Montazeri, who died late on Saturday aged 87, was viewed as the spiritual patron of an opposition movement that blossomed after a disputed presidential election in June and has proved resilient despite repeated efforts to suppress it. Violence flared when security forces... Read Full Story
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