Iraq bombs hit Sunni stronghold
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A double bombing kills seven in Baghdad, including the head of a US-backed Sunni armed group fighting al-Qaeda.
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Bombs exploded outside five churches in Baghdad and mortar rounds hit near a hospital and a hotel frequented by foreigners, as US forces loosened a cordon around the Sunni insurgent stronghold of Fallujah after several days of clashes with rebels there.
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Militants detonated bombs in two Christian churches in the northern city of Mosul today, destroying the sanctuaries in the latest of a string of attacks seemingly
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Sunni insurgents are striking back with attention-grabbing bombings in Baghdad and gruesome killings posted on the Internet, in an apparent effort to shore up their positions around the Iraqi capital as the U.S. struggles to secure the city.
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With Iraq's election only three days  away, insurgents bent on wrecking the poll killed 19 Iraqis and  a U.S. Marine on Thursday and bombed polling stations in the  country's Sunni heartland.
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KIRKUK, Iraq  - Rebels unleashed a wave of deadly   bomb attacks in Iraq's ethnically mixed city of Kirkuk on   Sunday, including a huge suicide truck bomb, a day after Prime   Minister Nuri al-Maliki urged Iraqis to embrace reconciliation.
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16 October 2004 -- A series of bomb blasts targeted Christian churches around Baghdad this morning, causing damage but no casualties, an Iraqi official said.
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US troops struck at militant strongholds across Iraq on Wednesday, pounding insurgent positions in Baghdad and clashing with fighters in central and northern cities.
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Two suicide bombers struck in a Sunni Arab district of Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 14 people including the leader of the area's neighborhood patrols, an Interior Ministry source said.
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Violence surged through central and northern Iraq on Saturday as a tenacious insurgency led by Sunni Arabs kept up relentless assaults in a string of major cities, from Ramadi to Falluja to Baghdad.
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Two bombs exploded at a gathering of Sunni Muslim radicals in the central Pakistan city of Multan before dawn Thursday, killing 39 people and wounding about 100, police said.
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A U.S.-Iraqi raid on the Abu Hanifa mosque &#151; one of the most revered sites for Sunni Muslims &#151; spawned a weekend of street battles, assassinations and a rash of bombings that changed Baghdad. The capital, for months a city of unrelenting but sporadic violence, has taken on the look of a battlefield.
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Violence flared in Iraq&#39;s restless Sunni Triangle yesterday when insurgents stormed two police stations in a brazen attempt to intimidate Sunni voters a day after Osama bin Laden
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BAGHDAD, Jan. 23 -- A building rigged with explosives detonated Wednesday in Mosul, creating a thunderous blast that killed at least 15 people in the northern Iraqi city, which has become a gathering point and growing target for Sunni insurgents.
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Insurgents launched deadly attacks throughout Iraq&#39;s Sunni Triangle region Tuesday, targeting the nation&#39;s fledgling security forces with ambushes and car bombs that killed at least 25 people and wounded 40 in four cities.
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A suicide truck bomber blew up outside the Iraqi army headquarters in the Sunni insurgent stronghold of Ramadi on Wednesday and many casualties were feared, police said.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - US and Iraqi troops raided a prominent Sunni mosque in Baghdad yesterday, killing at least three Iraqis in an operation that appeared to be aimed at stopping sermons that incited insurgent violence.