Sameer Yacoub

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Bombs kill 52 as gunmen storm university in Iraq

Bombs kill 52 as gunmen storm university in Iraq

Sameer Yacoub · June 7, 2014 6:58 pm

Attacks across Iraq kill 27 people

Attacks across Iraq kill 27 people

Sameer Yacoub · June 6, 2014 7:52 pm

In this photo taken on Wednesday, June 4, 2014 Iraqi security forces inspect the site of a car bomb attack in Hillah, about 60 miles (95 kilometers) south of Baghdad. Iraq is experiencing its worst surge in violence since the sectarian bloodletting that nearly tore the country apart in 2006 and 2007. The U.N. says 8,868 people were killed in 2013. (AP Photo)

Militant attack north of Baghdad kills 7 troops

Sameer Yacoub · June 5, 2014 4:23 pm

Attacks kill 13 people in Iraq

Attacks kill 13 people in Iraq

Sameer Yacoub · May 20, 2014 5:10 pm

Officials say attacks across Iraq kill 14

Officials say attacks across Iraq kill 14

Sameer Yacoub · May 18, 2014 6:02 pm

Mourners chant slogans against the al-Qaida breakaway group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), while carrying a flag-draped coffin of Ahmed Marzouk an Iraqi officer who was killed, said his family, in a fake checkpoint on Thursday, during his funeral procession in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, May 16, 2014. Bombings and shootings around Iraq's capital, including a deadly attack involving militants using a fake checkpoint to target army officers, killed and wounded dozens of people on Thursday, officials said. (AP Photo/ Jaber al-Helo)

Bombing north of capital kills 5 people in Iraq

Sameer Yacoub · May 17, 2014 11:02 am

Mourners chant slogans against the al-Qaida breakaway group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), while carrying a flag-draped coffin of Ahmed Marzouk an Iraqi officer who was killed, said his family, in a fake checkpoint on Thursday, during his funeral procession in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, May 16, 2014. Bombings and shootings around Iraq's capital, including a deadly attack involving militants using a fake checkpoint to target army officers, killed and wounded dozens of people on Thursday, officials said. (AP Photo/ Jaber al-Helo)

Attacks targeting soldiers, militia kill 7 in Iraq

Sameer Yacoub · May 16, 2014 5:23 pm

Officials say attacks kill 13 people in Iraq

Sameer Yacoub · May 14, 2014 12:27 pm

An Iraqi policeman rushes to the site moments after one in a series of bombs hit the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City, in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, May 13, 2014. A wave of car bombings in mainly Shiite areas of Baghdad killed tens on Tuesday, officials said. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

Car bomb blasts kill 34 as Iraqis await vote count

Sameer Yacoub · May 13, 2014 6:45 pm

Family members of Ali Jamal, 23, who was killed in a bomb attack, load his flag-draped coffin onto a vehicle before burial in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 12, 2014. Bombings and shootings killed several people in areas south of the Iraqi capital on Monday, authorities said. (AP Photo/Jaber al-Helo)

Bombings and shootings kill 14 in Iraq

Sameer Yacoub · May 12, 2014 8:21 pm

Bombings kill 14 people in Iraq; shelling kills 11

Bombings kill 14 people in Iraq; shelling kills 11

Sameer Yacoub · May 10, 2014 11:00 am

Iraqi security forces stand guard outside a vote counting center in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, May 8, 2014. Iraq voted Wednesday in its first nationwide election since U.S. troops withdrew in 2011, with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki confident of victory and even offering an olive branch to his critics by inviting them to join him in a governing coalition. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed)

Attacks in Iraq, including cafe bombing, kill 15

Sameer Yacoub · May 8, 2014 8:00 pm