Dean Yates
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/ 6 April 2008

Gunmen kidnap 42 students in Iraq

Gunmen kidnapped 42 university students near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Sunday, police said, in one of the biggest mass abductions in the country in many months. ”Gunmen stopped two buses in a village south of Mosul,” said Khalid Abdul-Sattar, police spokesperson for Nineveh province. The group was freed hours after being kidnapped.

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/ 7 July 2007

Violence in Iraq kills 50 civilians, six US troops

A series of car bombs and mortar attacks killed 50 people in Iraq, police and local officials said on Saturday, while the United States military announced six soldiers had been killed in the past two days. The fresh violence follows a relatively quiet few days in Iraq, where tens of thousands of US and Iraqi troops are on the offensive against insurgents

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/ 28 June 2007

Baghdad rocked by car bomb

A car bomb killed 25 people and wounded 40 on Thursday at an intersection in Baghdad where minibuses pick up and drop off passengers, Iraqi police said. In the southern city of Basra, a roadside bomb killed three British soldiers and seriously wounded another in the early hours of Thursday, the British military said.

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/ 19 June 2007

Scores killed in Baghdad bombing

A suicide truck bomber killed 78 people when he rammed his vehicle into a Shi’ite mosque in Baghdad on Tuesday, just hours after the United States military deployed 10 000 soldiers in a major offensive. The offensive around the city of Baquba in Diyala province is partly aimed at taking down al-Qaeda car-bomb networks.

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/ 19 June 2007

US says 10 000 troops in major Iraq offensive

The United States military said it had launched a huge offensive against al Qaeda north of Baghdad on Tuesday involving 10 000 soldiers, one of the single biggest operations since the end of the invasion of Iraq in 2003. The military said that 22 militants had been killed in the early hours of the offensive, which is taking place around the city of Baquba.