IRBIL, April 21 (KUNA) — An explosion Monday targeted and killed a member of the National Relations Bureau’s Kirkuk Office in the aviation square area, Iraqi Police sources said.
The sources added unidentified gunmen had also today shot dead Captain Mohammad Saeed Khalil in front of his home.
The captain worked with the Sleiman Pek district Police [...]

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IRBIL, Feb 26 (KUNA) — Twenty-five Iraqis were killed and injured in two separates incidents in Kirkuk and Mosul on Tuesday.
A security source told KUNA that a suicide bomber detonate his explosives inside a buss in Mosul city killing 15 people and injuring six others.
Meanwhile, police in Kirkuk said that masked gunmen opened fire on [...]

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IRBIL, Feb 25 (KUNA) — A high-ranking police officer escaped assassination Monday in Kirkuk, northern Iraq, at a time when 18 suspects were arrested.
A Kirkuk police source told KUNA that an explosive device was detonated as the convoy of Kirkuk police chief Brigadier Sarhad Qader was passing by, damaging the patrol vehicle without causing casualties.
Meanwhile, [...]

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IRBIL, Feb 8 (KUNA) — Three Iraqi policemen were wounded on Friday in a booby-trapped car explosion that targeted their patrol vehicle in southwestern Kirkuk, northern Iraq.
Kirkuk police chief, Brigadier Sarhad Qader, told KUNA that the explosive-laden car blew up in Huwaija district, southwestern Kirkuk, targeting the patrol vehicle and wounding three policemen on board.
Moreover, [...]

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IRBIL, Feb 5 (KUNA) — The Iraqi police said on Tuesday they have arrested 11 persons, including four wanted ones, in an operation in Kirkuk north of the country.
An Iraqi security source told KUNA that an Iraqi police force, backed by a multi-national force unit, stormed into the areas of Al-Zab and Al-Huwaija south west [...]

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By Mokhles Khoshnaw IRBIL, Jan 30 (KUNA) — A district governor was wounded Wednesday in an armed attack in southern Kirkuk, at a time when authorities worked out a security plan to prevent the influx of armed groups from neighboring Mosul.
A police source told KUNA that armed men opened fire at the convoy of Taleb [...]

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BAGHDAD (AP) — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday that the United States, Iraq and Turkey have a “common interest” in stopping Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq, but cautioned against taking any action that could destabilize the region.
Rice’s comments came two days after Turkey conducted airstrikes against rebels from the Kurdish Workers’ Party, or [...]

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BAGHDAD, Dec 10 (KUNA) — Five Iraqis were injured on Monday when an improvised explosive device went off at a public square in Mansoura district, western Baghdad, police sources said.
The sources, who requested anonymity, said three police personnel were among the injuries who were admitted to Al-Yarmuk Hospital.
Major General Abdul-Kareem Khalaf, the director of Operations [...]

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IRBIL, Dec 5 (KUNA) — Four Iraqis were killed and 10 others were wounded in a booby-trapped car explosion aimed at the convoy of a senior Iraqi officer in Al-Sulaimaniya central Kirkuk in northern Iraq.
An Iraqi police source told KUNA the blast was aimed at the director general of Al-Sulaimaniya’s emergency police killing four civilians [...]

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IRBIL, Nov 21 (KUNA) — The president of the political prisoners association of Kurdistan was injured when explosives attached to his car went off in Iraq’s Sulaimaniya province, police sources said on Wednesday.
In remarks to KUNA, the sources said an explosive device went off in the car of the association’s president, Ahmed Rasul, in Sulaimaniya [...]

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