The Iraqi government has called on armed groups to follow the lead of the biggest Shi’ite militia and freeze their operations, even as the United States military on Friday reported the deaths of two more American service members in fighting against Sunni insurgents.
Gunmen seized the chairman of Iraq’s Olympic committee and at least 30 other people on Saturday in a brazen daylight raid on a sports conference in the heart of the city as armed clashes erupted in scattered parts of the capital. Parliament extended the national state of emergency as at least 27 people — including two American soldiers — were killed in sectarian or insurgency-related violence.
The Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader in southern Lebanon died on Friday of wounds from a car bombing that also killed his brother, security officials said. Mahmoud Majzoub was walking with his brother Nidal near the central square of Sidon, when a parked car was detonated by remote control.
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/ 16 February 2005
Screaming and weeping mourners clambered around the coffin carrying the Lebanese flag-draped body of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri as hundreds of thousands of people attended an emotion-charged funeral service on Wednesday at a mosque, two days after Hariri was killed by a huge bomb.
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/ 23 December 2004
The United States military was re-examining security measure at bases around Iraq on Thursday, a day after saying that a suicide bomber likely carried out the attack at a camp near Mosul that killed 22 people. The explosion on Monday at the tightly guarded US base raised questions about how the attacker infiltrated the compound.
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/ 22 September 2004
Suicide attackers detonated a car bomb on Wednesday near an Iraqi national guard recruiting centre in west Baghdad, killing at least six people and injuring 54, authorities said. Another car bomb shook the capital’s upscale Mansour district in the afternoon, police and witnesses said. Six people were wounded there, the military said.