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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: Yazidi

Yazidi stories: 3 news summaries

Iraq Blasts Toll Rises to 500

Deadliest terror attack since fall of Hussein

Aug 16, 07 12:35 AM CDT
(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 • Islam • terrorism • sectarian violence • Sunni • insurgents • troop surge • Iraq death toll • Yazidi • ethnic cleansing • al-Qaeda • Iraq war

Toll Rises
to 250 in
Iraq Blasts

Massive attacks
against Kurds suggest spreading insurgency

Aug 15, 07 3:24 PM CDT
(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... More »

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

Gunmen Execute 23 In Kurdish Sect

Yazidis pulled from
bus and shot in
reprisal for stoning

Apr 22, 07 3:54 PM CDT
(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 • Islam • Bashika • religion • execution • Yazidi • stoning • car bomb • Mosul

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