Insurgents Step Up Violence on Civilians
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Car bomb explodes near hospital, killing 17; bodies of 12 found in Mosul.
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Scattered car bombings, mortar attacks and clashes between insurgents and U.S. and Iraqi security forces in Iraq killed at least 120 civilians and wounded 219, one of the highest single-day totals in recent months.
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BAGHDAD, Dec. 8. - Insurgents launched a string of assaults around Samarra today, trading gunfire with US forces, attacking a convoy, and blowing up a police station after looting its armoury, officials said.
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The three bombings, in one of the countryÂs worst days of violence against civilians, were a clear escalation in insurgent tactics.
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Insurgent attacks in Iraq killed 3,709 civilians last month, making October the deadliest month since the war began in 2003, according to U.N. figures. The report attributes the violence to "terrorist acts and sectarian strife, including revenge killings, fueled by insurgent, militia and criminal activities."
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Baghdad - At least 20 Iraqis, most of them civilians, were killed in attacks by insurgents north of Baghdad on Sunday, in the latest strikes on Iraqi security forces and people working with the United States military.
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Death squads and terrorists have ramped up attacks on civilians in Iraq, killing more than 1,600 people in cold-blooded "execution-style" slayings in July alone, a Pentagon report said today. But the report concluded the "current violence is not a civil war, and movement toward civil war can be prevented."
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With car bombs, assassinations and raids on police stations, Iraqi insurgents killed at least 25 people, including Iraqi policemen and a deputy governor, across volatile Sunni areas yesterday.
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The US military says it has killed more than 130 insurgents in two days of fighting in Samarra, but locals say many civilians are among the dead.
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Participants in a contentious Baghdad security operation this month say that at least one guard continued firing on civilians while colleagues urgently called for a cease-fire.
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At least nine Iraqis and four US soldiers are reported to have been killed in renewed violence in Iraq.
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This week's fighting in Diwaniyah between rebels and Iraqi forces highlights the growing power of militias in the country.
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Insurgents launched assaults around the city of Samarra on Wednesday, trading gunfire with US forces, attacking a convoy, and blowing up a police station after looting its armory.
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By key measures of the level of insurgent violence against American forces in Iraq - numbers of dead, wounded and insurgent attacks - the situation has grown worse since summer.
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BAGHDAD, Nov. 22--The number of civilians killed in Iraq last month reached a record 3,709, most of them the result of sectarian violence, according to a U.N. report released Wednesday.
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Thailand's insurgency is becoming a brutal conflict where the majority of victims are civilians, a rights group say.
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A tenacious insurgency led by Sunni Arabs kept up relentless assaults today in a string of major cities.