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  • August 2007

    • Iraq Blasts Toll Rises to 500

      Time  |  Aug 16, 07 12:35 AM CDT

      Iraq Blasts Toll Rises to 500

      (Newser) - The death toll from Tuesday's series of suicide truck bombings in northern Iraq may exceed 500, with scores more lying injured in hospitals, CNN reports. The attacks were reportedly launched by al-Qaeda against the Yazidi, a pre-Islamic sect, spotlighting the religious warfare that US troop surge sought to quell. More »

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      Iraq  • Iraq war  • al-Qaeda  • terrorism  • Islam  • insurgents  • troop surge  • Sunni  • sectarian violence  • Iraq death toll  • ethnic cleansing  • Yazidi

    • Toll Rises to 250 in Iraq Blasts

      New York Times  |  Aug 15, 07 3:24 PM CDT

      Toll Rises to 250 in Iraq Blasts

      (Newser) - Officials pushed the death toll of attacks on two Iraqi towns up to 250 today, as rescuers located more victims amid rubble. “It looks like a nuclear bomb hit the villages,” an officer told the New York Times of yesterday's blasts in an area populated by a Kurdish sect often targeted by militant Sunni Muslims. More »

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      Sunni  • Kurds  • sectarian violence  • Iraq death toll  • Yazidi

  • April 2007

    • Gunmen Execute 23 In Kurdish Sect

      Associated Press  |  Apr 22, 07 3:54 PM CDT

      Gunmen Execute 23 In Kurdish Sect

      (Newser) - Gunmen in northern Iraq stopped a bus carrying workers home from a textile factory  today, identified 23 members of a tiny religious sect on board, and shot them to death. The bus was filled with Christians and Yazidis, a mostly Kurdish sect that worships an angel, the AP reports. More »

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      Iraq  • religion  • Islam  • car bomb  • execution  • Mosul  • Yazidi  • stoning

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