Sahwa militiamen guard a checkpoint on the outskirts of Baghdad. (AFP/File/Aubrey Belford)Attacks Threaten Fragile Security Gains in Cradle of Iraq Insurgency
Maj. Gen. Tariq al-Youssef caught a fleeting glimpse of the man who wanted him dead. As his armored sport utility vehicle pulled past the battered yellow taxi, General Youssef, the commander of the police in Anbar Province, recalled thinking that the driver looked like so many men in this impoverished territory — another poor peasant trying to eke out a living.
FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Nov 16
KIRKUK - A car bomb exploded in a crowded marketplace, killing six and wounding six others in northern Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad.
BAGHDAD - A bomb planted under a car parked near an Iraqi army checkpoint exploded, killing two soldiers and wounding six civilians in Baghdad's Mansour District, police said.
MOSUL - A hand grenade exploded, killing one civilian in central Mosul, on Sunday, police said.
13 Sunni men, boys reported slain in Iraq
In a massacre that revived memories of Iraq's worst years of sectarian bloodshed, assailants dressed in Iraqi army uniforms savagely killed 13 men and boys late Sunday near the restive city of Abu Ghraib, according to Iraqi officials and villagers.
Afghanistan: Barack Obama gets ready to make toughest call of presidency
President Barack Obama is expected to make a long-awaited announcement on his Afghan war strategy in the next few days in an attempt to bring an end to a prolonged period of uncertainty surrounding US intentions, officials said today.
Taliban blow up girls' school in Pakistan: officials
Taliban militants blew up a girls' school in Pakistan's Khyber district on Tuesday, the third such attack in the tribal region bordering Afghanistan so far this month, officials said. An intelligence official in the area said Taliban attacked the government-run school overnight when no one was at the property.
Holder's al Qaeda Incentive Plan
When it comes to terrorists, you would think that an al Qaeda operative who targets an American mom sitting in her office or a child on a flight back home is many degrees worse than a Taliban soldier picked up after a firefight with U.S. Army troops.
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