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• Iraq attacks kill at least 18, including army general: police, medics
• Who's jumping through which hoops for 2016
• Over 500 dead in fortnight of air strikes in Syria's Aleppo: NGO
• Man who shot Tupelo police officers said to be bank robber killed in Arizona
• Three senior army officers among 16 killed in Iraq
• Shooting, bombings across Iraq kill 14
• Shooting, bombings across Iraq kill 10
• UN completes first Iraq-Syria aid airlift
• Wanted leader of Qaeda-linked group had been held in Iraq
• Drive-by shooting and bomb in Iraq kill 6
• Gunmen kill four anti-Qaeda fighters in Iraq

Iraq attacks kill at least 18, including army general: police, medics Posted: 29 Dec 2013 04:56 PM PST At least 18 people were killed in attacks across Iraq on Sunday, including a military general in a bombing in the northern city of Mosul, police and medical sources said. Violence in Iraq has hit its highest levels since the sectarian fighting of 2006-7, which killed tens of thousands of people. A suicide bomber killed at least eight soldiers, including a brigadier general and three other officers, when he blew himself up by their convoy in the eastern part of Mosul, police and medical sources said. At least four soldiers were killed and ten others wounded when gunmen attacked a military barracks in the town of Garma, 30 km (20 miles) northwest of Baghdad, police and medics said.

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Over 500 dead in fortnight of air strikes in Syria's Aleppo: NGO Posted: 29 Dec 2013 12:36 PM PST Regime air strikes on the northern Syrian province of Aleppo have killed at least 517 people since December 15, including 151 children, a monitor said on Sunday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said a string of regime aerial attacks on the province, including second city Aleppo, with raids using explosives-packed barrels, had also killed 46 women. At least 46 opposition fighters, including 34 rebels and 12 jihadists from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, but the majority of the dead were civilians, the Observatory said. Recent weeks have seen a relentless aerial campaign targeting towns and villages across Aleppo province.

Man who shot Tupelo police officers said to be bank robber killed in Arizona Posted: 29 Dec 2013 09:50 AM PST Law enforcement authorities believe the bank robber who shot two police officers in Tupelo, Miss. last week, killing one, is the same man later killed in another attempted bank robbery in Phoenix, Ariz., Saturday. If confirmed by physical evidence, this would bring to a close a massive manhunt that crossed state lines and involved many law enforcement agencies. "We believe that this suspect is the same individual who is responsible for the attempted bank robbery in Atlanta, the robbery of the BancorpSouth in Tupelo, the shooting of Officer Joseph Maher, and the murder of Officer Gale Stauffer," the Jackson, Miss., FBI bureau said in a statement late Saturday.

Three senior army officers among 16 killed in Iraq Posted: 29 Dec 2013 09:36 AM PST Attacks in Iraq mainly targeting members of the security forces killed at least 16 people on Sunday, among them three senior army officers, security and medical officials said. The attacks come as Iraq suffers its worst violence since 2008, when the country was just emerging from a brutal period of sectarian tit-for-tat killings. In the northern city of Mosul, a suicide bomber detonated an explosives-rigged vehicle near a military convoy, killing four soldiers, among them a brigadier general, a colonel and a lieutenant colonel. In Abu Ghraib, west of Baghdad, gunmen killed at least four Sahwa anti-Al-Qaeda militiamen and wounded at least three at a checkpoint on Sunday.

Shooting, bombings across Iraq kill 14 Posted: 29 Dec 2013 09:12 AM PST BAGHDAD (AP) — Attacks across Iraq, including a suicide bombing targeting soldiers on patrol and a drive-by shooting, killed at least 14 people Sunday, officials said.

Shooting, bombings across Iraq kill 10 Posted: 29 Dec 2013 08:52 AM PST BAGHDAD (AP) — Attacks across Iraq, including a suicide bombing targeting army officers and a drive-by shooting, killed at least 10 people Sunday, officials said.

UN completes first Iraq-Syria aid airlift Posted: 29 Dec 2013 07:06 AM PST The United Nations said Sunday that it has completed the first aid airlift from Iraq to Syria, providing much-needed supplies to a difficult-to-access region of the war-torn country. "The last UNHCR (UN refugee agency) cargo flight landed today at Qamishli airport carrying assistance urgently needed by displaced persons," the UNHCR said in a statement, referring to the location in northeast Syria. It was the last of a 24-flight airlift by UNHCR, the UN's World Food Programme (WFP) and children's agency UNICEF, which started on December 15.

Wanted leader of Qaeda-linked group had been held in Iraq Posted: 29 Dec 2013 07:03 AM PST Baghdad (AFP) - One of the most wanted leaders of an Al-Qaeda-linked group operating in Iraq and Syria had been held in detention for five years but was released in 2010, an Iraqi official revealed Sunday.

Drive-by shooting and bomb in Iraq kill 6 Posted: 29 Dec 2013 04:43 AM PST BAGHDAD (AP) — Officials say a drive-by shooting and a bomb in Iraq have killed at least six people.

Gunmen kill four anti-Qaeda fighters in Iraq Posted: 28 Dec 2013 04:25 PM PST Gunmen attacked an anti-Qaeda militia checkpoint west of the Iraqi capital on Sunday, killing at least four fighters, security and medical officials said. The Sahwa are made up of Sunni Arab tribesmen who joined forces with the United States from late 2006, helping to bring about a significant reduction in violence. They are frequently targeted by Sunni Muslim militants, who consider them traitors. Violence in Iraq has reached a level not seen since 2008, when the country was just emerging from a brutal period of sectarian killings.

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