A Police ******r was killed in a relatively rare attack in the Iraqi port city of Basra Saturday, while security forces reopened a key highway after retaking a village from militants. The latest bloodshed came a day after attacks across the country killed 33 people, with bombings and shootings largely targeting Sunni Arab-majority areas of **rthern and western Iraq, just weeks ahead of national parliamentary elections. Violence in Iraq is at its highest level since 2008, with the unrest driven principally by anger in the Sunni mi**rity, which alleges mistreatment at the hands of the Shiite-led authorities, as well as spillover from the civil war in neighbouring Syria. In Basra, Police Lieutenant Colonel Ihsan Maadhi was gunned down in front of his house in the centre of the southern city, Police and medical sources said.
03-25-2014, 12:07 AM
Police ******r killed in rare south Iraq attack
A Police ******r was killed in a relatively rare attack in the Iraqi port city of Basra Saturday, while security forces reopened a key highway after retaking a village from militants. The latest bloodshed came a day after attacks across the country killed 33 people, with bombings and shootings largely targeting Sunni Arab-majority areas of **rthern and western Iraq, just weeks ahead of national parliamentary elections. Violence in Iraq is at its highest level since 2008, with the unrest driven principally by anger in the Sunni mi**rity, which alleges mistreatment at the hands of the Shiite-led authorities, as well as spillover from the civil war in neighbouring Syria. In Basra, Police Lieutenant Colonel Ihsan Maadhi was gunned down in front of his house in the centre of the southern city, Police and medical sources said.
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