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A pair of suicide bombers hit a crowded market in Baghdad on Thursday, Iraq’s civil defense agency said, killing at least 32 people, injuring more than 100 others and reigniting fears of a return to the days when such attacks were a daily occurrence in the Iraqi capital.
The first of the bombers approached Tayaran Square, a major intersection in Baghdad’s downtown area near the Bab Sharqi open-air market for used clothing and surplus military gear.
Sometime before 10 a.m., the attacker pretended to be sick to draw people to him, then detonated his explosives-laden vest, according to officials and local news reports.
January 2, 2021 at 11:21 am | Published in: Iraq, Middle East, News
Oil tankers seen at the Al-Basra Oil Terminal in Iraq, 16 May 2017 [Samuel W. Shavers/Wikipedia] January 2, 2021 at 11:21 am
The Iraqi Ministry of Defence announced on Friday that an oil ship was evacuated after a naval mine became attached to its hull in Gulf waters.
The ministry s Security Information Cell confirmed in a statement, of which
Anadolu Agency received a copy, that a large naval mine became attached to the ship on Thursday evening, while in the waiting area in international waters, 28 nautical miles from the Iraqi oil ports.
The statement explained that when the incident occurred: This ship, which was leased from the State Organisation for Marketing of Oil (SOMO), was refuelling another ship, without indicating the owner of the second ship.
Russian Katyusha rockets were fired at the US embassy in Baghdad
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BAGHDAD, (BM) – Late in the evening on December 20, a massive rocket attack took place in the US embassy in Baghdad and Baghdad’s green zone, which, according to sources in the Lebanese news agency Al-Masdar News, caused several explosions in the city, learned BulgarianMilitary.com citing the Lebanese agency.
Officially, the missile attack confirms by the press service of the Iraqi Ministry of Defense. In a statement, the Iraqi army did not specify who carried out the missile attack on Baghdad’s green zone but only mentioned the