70 die as Iraq violence escalates
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Insurgents in Iraq mounted a third straight day of serious attacks yesterday, killing 17 people when they opened fire on buses delivering workers to an ordnance disposal site.
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Iraq's prime minister pleaded for   Iraqis to "unite as brothers" on Monday as a fresh spasm of   violence gripped Baghdad, where 60 people were killed at the   weekend in a dramatic escalation of sectarian bloodletting.
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A suicide car bomber blasted a US convoy north of Baghdad and US troops battled insurgents west of the capital Wednesday as a wave of violence across Iraq&#39;s Sunni Muslim heartland killed at least 27 people.
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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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GUERRILLAS shot dead 17 Iraqis working for US forces north of Baghdad yesterday, and killed six other people, including three Iraqi National Guard members, taking the toll from three days of violence to more than 70.
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Car bombs and clashes have shaken the Iraqi capital Wednesday, killing at least 17 people and wounding dozens more. A suicide car bomber killed seven people and wounded more than 50 outside a photocopy shop
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Bombs killed more than 60 people and wounded more than 200 Sunday in Baghdad and the northern oil center of Kirkuk &#151; a dramatic escalation of violence as U.S. and Iraqi forces crack down on Iraq's most feared Shiite militia.
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At least 20 people were reportedly killed and 65 others injured as the result of weekend violence occurring in Baghdad. Broadcast sources say most casualties occurred Sunday when fierce fighting
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A spate of car bombs and mortar attacks killed 70 people in Iraq, police and local officials said on Saturday, while the U.S. military reported eight of its soldiers killed in the past two days.
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A wave of bomb attacks and shootings swept Iraq Sunday, killing dozens of people despite a massive security operation in the capital and appeals from Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki for an end to sectarian fighting.
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Insurgents escalated the violence in Iraq Thursday morning as separate bombing incidents killed dozens of people, including three American soldiers.
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Iraqi soldiers clashed with gunmen in a Shiite district of Baghdad on Friday, killing at least seven people, officials said.
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At least 101 Iraqis died in the country's unending sectarian slaughter Wednesday, and the U.N. reported that 3,709 Iraqi civilians were killed in October, the highest monthly toll of the war and one that is sure to be eclipsed when November's dead are counted.
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Guerrillas have shot dead 17 Iraqis working for US forces north of Baghdad and killed six other people, including three Iraqi National Guards, taking the toll from three days of violence to more than 70.
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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 several major cities, including
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A series of attacks on Iraqi police and volunteer patrols killed at least seven people in Baghdad and neighboring provinces on Saturday, including Diyala, where clashes erupted in villages ringing the provincial capital, officials said.
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Violence in Iraq claimed 19 lives Wednesday, as 23 bodies were found in Baghdad, all believed to be to victims of sectarian death squads.