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/ 29 October 2011
They had gathered in a café to celebrate the engagement of two of their colleagues when the earthquake struck, killing tens of Turkey’s teachers.
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan’s AK Party has scored a resounding third consecutive election victory.
Turkey’s secular establishment vowed on Thursday to campaign for a "no" vote in a September referendum on constitutional reforms.
Thousands of American troops searched on Sunday for three US soldiers missing in Iraq after an ambush in which al-Qaeda said it seized ”crusader” forces. The self-styled Islamic State in Iraq, a group led by al-Qaeda, said in an internet posting it was holding soldiers who survived an attack south of Baghdad.
United States-led troops combed orchards and searched farms after seven American soldiers and an Iraqi army interpreter were ambushed on Saturday in an al-Qaeda bastion south of Baghdad, leaving five dead and three missing. The military said the patrol was attacked before dawn west of the town of Mahmudiya in the Sunni ”triangle of death”.
Eight United States soldiers were killed in Iraq on Sunday, including six who died along with a European journalist in a roadside bomb attack north of Baghdad, the US military said. Earlier, a car bomb killed 35 people and wounded 80 next to a crowded market in a Shi’ite district of Baghdad.
Two suicide car bombers rammed their vehicles into an Iraqi police station in south-western Baghdad on Sunday, killing 10 people and wounding 75, police said. The attack in the mostly Shi’ite al-Bayaa neighbourhood was one of the deadliest against Iraqi security forces in the capital since a United States-backed security crackdown was launched in mid-February.
Up to 21 people were killed and about 60 wounded in bomb attacks in two Shi’ite districts of Baghdad on Sunday, police said, while two British military personnel died when two helicopters crashed north of the city. The United States. military said two soldiers died and five were injured when the helicopters crashed near a large U.S. air base in Taji, 20km from Baghdad.
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/ 12 February 2007
Three bomb attacks at markets in central Baghdad killed at least 76 people on Monday as Iraqis marked the first anniversary of a Shi’ite shrine bombing that pitched the country to the brink of civil war. In the deadliest attack, twin car bombings exploded in quick succession in the Shorja wholesale market, killing at least 71 people.
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/ 6 February 2007
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki ordered Iraq’s military commanders on Tuesday to speed up preparations for a United States-backed crackdown in Baghdad after a string of attacks killed hundreds of people in recent days. Addressing Iraqi generals, Maliki said: ”I call on you to quickly finish the preparations so that we don’t disappoint people.”