Tag Archives: Northern Iraq

International Rights group Amnesty International has gathered evidence which suggests that extrajudicial executions of detainees have been conducted by Shi’ite militias and government forces in the cities of Mosul, Ba’quba and Tal ‘Afar. Relatives of those executed and surviving detainees had given graphic, detailed accounts of the executions, which suggest that Iraqi forces had carried out several vindictive attacks against …

On Friday, violence north of Baghdad, including a car bomb attack set off by a suicide bomber, resulted in the deaths of six people, just two days after Iraq’s parliamentary elections held on Wednesday. The bloodshed, in the aftermath the first elections held in the country after the withdrawal of US troops in 2011, is the latest in the midst …