Strife in North Iraq as Sunni Arabs Drive Out Kurds
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Conflict between Arabs and Kurds is intensifying in Mosul, adding another dimension to the civil war.
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Two dozen people died in a surge of violence in northern Iraq, including 10 at a soccer game hit by a suicide car bombing, police said Friday, while the country's spiraling sectarian and political bloodshed killed at least 17 others elsewhere.
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MOSUL, Iraq, Nov 10  - At least 22 people were killed in a wave of violence in northern Iraq Wednesday, prompting the government to slap curfews on the Sunni Muslim cities of Mosul and Baiji.
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Fifteen people were killed, including 10 suspected al Qaeda insurgents, in clashes with local security units in northern Iraq on Sunday, the U.S. military said.
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KIRKUK, Iraq  - U.S. troops were braced for  violence in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk Monday after a  strong showing by Kurds in provincial elections threatened to  upset the city's delicate ethnic balance.
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Insurgent attacks against US and Iraqi troops continued Wednesday west of Baghdad in the rebel stronghold known as the Sunni Triangle.
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Thousands of Kurds joined rallies across northern Iraq and marched to U.N. offices Thursday to protest a vote by Turkey's lawmakers that backed possible cross-border attacks against Kurdish rebel camps.
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Iraq on Tuesday pledged to crack down on Kurdish separatists carrying out attacks on Turkey from hideouts in the mountains of northern Iraq in a bid to avert a Turkish military incursion onto its territory to hit the rebels.
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Parliament authorized the government Wednesday to send troops into northern Iraq to root out Kurdish rebels who've been conducting raids into Turkey. The vote removed the last legal obstacle to an offensive, but there was no sign of imminent action as the United States urged restraint.
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The soldiers died in the volatile Sunni heartlands north of Baghdad as the U.S. military launched its third offensive in a year to dislodge Sunni guerrillas from Diyala Province.
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Turkish jets bomb Kurdish villages in an anti-rebel operation in northern Iraq, local officials say.
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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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Elsewhere on Wednesday, insurgents attacks Iraqi security forces around the rebellious Sunni Triangle. The region is a large swath of land to the north and west of Baghdad where resistance to the Americans is fiercest.
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Description: Violence erupts in northern Iraq, as a suicide bomber kills at least 17 people and wounds dozens more outside a police academy in Kirkuk.
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A Kurdish-backed list of candidates won a majority of seats on the regional council that governs this diverse northern city, a major political step in reversing the bloody course set by former president Saddam Hussein to make Kirkuk an Arab-dominated city.
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KIRKUK, Iraq  - Insurgents destroyed a major bridge that connects the Iraqi capital Baghdad with the northern cities of Kirkuk and Arbil early on Saturday, police said.
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Turkish troops entered northern Iraq early on Tuesday to flush out separatist Kurdish rebels, Jabbar Yawar, spokesman for the Kurdish peshmerga security force, told AFP.