Topic: Mosul

Blasts kill 12 in Iraq

Two explosions killed 12 people in Iraq on Monday, authorities said.. . The first blast, a car bomb, exploded in eastern Mosul killing at least...
Gunmen attacked an Iraqi police checkpoint Sunday morning, leaving five people dead, authorities said.. . Two police officers and a member of the...

Car bomb kills at least nine in Mosul

At least nine people are killed in a car bomb attack in northern Iraq. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.. . "Car bomb kills at least nine in Mosul" is...

Bombs kill three, injure 35 in north Iraq: police

MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - Two car bombs exploded near shops and restaurants in the Iraqi town of Tal Afar on Wednesday, killing at least three people and wounding 35 others, a police source said.The blasts occurred in the mainly Shi'ite town ...

Five killed in Iraq attacks

Gun and bomb attacks in Iraq killed five people, including an army brigadier general, and wounded three others on Saturday, security officials said.Unknown gunmen shot dead army Brigadier General Fadhel al-Azul and his wife in the Urr neighbourhood in northern Baghdad ...

Bombs in Iraq's Mosul kill five, injure 22: police

MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - At least five people were killed, including three Iraqi soldiers, and another 22 wounded when two car bombs and a roadside bomb exploded in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Wednesday, hospital and police sources said.Explosives packed ...

Twin Baghdad blasts kill nine

Two bomb attacks minutes apart in west Baghdad on Monday evening killed at least nine people and wounded more than 20 others, security officials said, amid nationwide violence that left 12 dead.The first explosion occurred at around 8:30 pm (1730 ...
Iraq does not tax its citizens, but Abu Jassem al-Juburi, who runs a gas station in Mosul, still hands over a chunk of his income every month to the group that holds sway there: Al-Qaeda.Dramatically weakened nationwide since it wrought vicious ...
Photos of the day selected by the Photo Editors at the National Post. ATTA KENARE/AFP/Getty Images. Iranians stop a shop selling goldfish ahead of...

Nineveh

Nineveh, an ancient city and the capital of Assyria when the empire was at the height of its power. Nineveh was on the east bank of the Tigris...