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Reported security incidents
Baghdad:
#1: A civilian man was killed when an improvised explosive device (IED) attached to his vehicle went off in northern Baghdad on Saturday, a local police source said. “The charge ripped through a civilian vehicle in Aden Square, al-Kadhemiya area, northern Baghdad, leaving the driver killed and causing severe damage to his vehicle,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
A bomb attached to an Iraqi soldier's car killed him in northern Baghdad, police said.
#2: Iraqi security forces killed a militant carrying a bomb in Baghdad's northern district of Adhamiya, the Baghdad security spokesman's office said.
#3: A roadside bomb exploded near a joint patrol of the Iraqi army and a government-backed militia, wounding six soldiers and three militia members, in western Baghdad on Friday, police said.
#4: Gunmen killed a police official who works in the department overseeing Baghdad security checkpoints, in front of his house in Baghdad's eastern district of Sadr City on Friday, police said.
Diyala Prv:
#1: A sahwa (awakening) tribal fighter was killed and five others, including three sahwa men, wounded in an improvised explosive device (IED) attack west of Baaquba city on Friday, a local police source in Diala said. “An IED went off near a vehicle driven by a sahwa leader in a-Katoun neighborhood, (3 km) west of Baaquba, leaving him killed and five others wounded,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
#2: Four policemen were wounded in an improvised explosive device (IED) attack in al-Adhim area, north of Baaquba city, on Saturday, a local security source in Diala said. “Four policemen were injured when an IED went off near their patrol in al-Adhim, al-Khalis district, (55 km) north of Baaquba,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
Abu Ghraib:
#1: A bomb attached to a car killed one and wounded two in Abu Ghraib on the western outskirts of Baghdad, police said.
Thi Qar Prv:
#1: Policemen in Thi-Qar province defused two explosively formed penetrators (EFPs) weighing 10 kilograms near the Sabba oilfield on the road between al-Nasseriya and Basra, a local security source said on Saturday. “The police received intelligence tip-offs about weird objects on the road linking Nasseriya to Basra near the Sabba oilfield, (100 km) in southern Nasseriya,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. “The security agencies rushed to the area and found two EFPs each weighing five kilograms and both linked to detonation wires and ready for exploding,” he said.
Sulaiman Pek:
#1: Two bombs planted in a house killed a landlord and his wife in Sulaiman Pek, 160 km (100 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.
Al Rashad:
#1: Gunmen opened fire at a government-backed militia checkpoint, killing three people and wounding four others in the town of Rashad, southwest of Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.
Kirkuk:
#1: Police in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk say gunmen have killed three members of an anti-al-Qaida militia in a drive-by shooting at a village checkpoint. A police official says gunmen opened fire from a speeding car around sunset Friday on the checkpoint in a village 28 miles (45 kilometers) south of oil-rich Kirkuk. Four people were injured.
#2: Bombs planted inside the home of a policeman in northern Iraq exploded Saturday, killing him, his mother and one other resident, a security official said. The early morning attack took place on a home in the town of Amirli, just south of the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, and injured five other people.
#3: The early morning attack took place on a home in the town of Amirli, just south of the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, and injured five other people.
#4: The kidnapped teenage son of a wealthy Sufi sheik was found dead Saturday, said Brig. Gen. Najimulddin Kadir, the police chief of Sulaimaniyah, a Kurdish city in northern Iraq some 50 miles (80 kilometres) east of Kirkuk. Kidnappers took 16-year-old Mohammed Tahir Said on April 27 and demanded $250,000 ransom. According to the police chief, there were complications in paying the ransom and so the kidnappers killed the boy.
Mosul:
#1: A man from the facility protection service department was shot down by unidentified gunmen north of Mosul city on Friday, an Iraqi police source said. “A guard who was on a leave was killed by gunmen fire while heading home in the district of Wana, (30 km) north of Mosul,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
#2: Two civilians were wounded by a stun bomb near the provincial administration building in central Mosul city on Saturday, a local police source in Ninewa said. “The bomb apparently targeted a police patrol belonging to Iraq’s Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT) company on al-Jumhuriya street, central Mosul, but left two civilians slightly wounded,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. “The device was planted on the main road leading to the provincial building, about 200 meters away from the main gate,” he added.
#3: Gunmen killed an off-duty policeman returning to his house in the Wana district north of Mosul on Friday, police said.
Kurdistan:
#1: The Turkish air force has struck the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, hideouts in neighbouring northern Iraq after an attack inside Turkey left two soldiers dead, the military said late Friday. "After detecting that anti-aircraft fire was opened on (Turkish) helicopters from various positions across the border, the air force fired on those positions" for an hour Friday afternoon, the army said in an online statement. "It has been observed that those positions were destroyed," it said. The operation against the PKK, which has rear bases in Iraq, began after a group of about 25 PKK members attacked a military unit near the border village of Daglica Friday morning, killing two soldiers. The statement confirmed that at least five PKK members were killed in the ensuing clashes. "Operations in the region are continuing and it is believed that the losses of the terrorists are higher," it said.
Al Anbar Prv:
#1: A gunman was killed on Friday in a bomb blast in eastern Ramadi, a police source said. “The gunman was trying to plant the bomb in the industrial region, eastern Ramadi, when it exploded suddenly, killing him on the pot,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
Afghanistan: "The Forgotten War"
#1: At least one person was killed when a bomb exploded at a cockfight in northern Afghanistan early Saturday, police said, blaming Taliban insurgents. Dozens of people were at the fight in Kunduz province when the remote-controlled bomb exploded, provincial police chief Mohammad Razaq Yaqoubi told AFP. One person was wounded in addition to the fatality.
#2: Two women, two children and two men were killed in Charkh district of the central province of Logar after their vehicle was blown up by a roadside bomb, a spokesman for Logar’s governor said.
#3: In the neighbouring province of Wardak, a roadside bomb hit the convoy of a private security company in Sayed Abad district, Shahidullah Shahid, spokesman for the provincial governor, said. There were no casualties among the convoy personnel, but a 31-year-old man was killed when the security guards opened fire on Hassan Khail village.
#3: The U.S. soldiers who were attacked were based at another small outpost in Zhari called Strong Point Lako Khel, which has been a favorite target of Taliban militants because it doesn't enjoy the same defensive hilltop position as Ghundy Ghar (in Kandahar province's Zhari district). About an hour later, militants holed up in a mud compound attacked a U.S. platoon that had set up a temporary observation post east of Ghundy Ghar, Lessman said. Over the next 30 minutes, the soldiers responded with a punishing barrage of grenades and gunfire, while Kiowa helicopters pounded the militants with rockets, sending up clouds of dust and smoke. It was unclear if there were any casualties from the two incidents.
#4: That all changed abruptly on Friday. The morning dawned with a roadside bomb attack against Afghan army troops as they traveled along the main highway that runs through Kandahar about a mile north of Ghundy Ghar,(in Kandahar province's Zhari district) said Lt. Jonathan Lessman, the commander of First Platoon. The blast triggered an intense firefight that lasted nearly 10 minutes.
#5: A joint force of Afghan and international troops killed two insurgents and detained several other militants during operations in the last 24 hours in some parts of the country, NATO said.
#6: Afghan and Western forces killed several insurgents and detained four others during a security patrol in the Marjah town of southern Helmand province on Friday, the defence ministry said.
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