Tag: western Iraq

More than 60 people killed in wave of car bombs across Baghdad

By Kareem Raheem and Kamal Naama  (Reuters) — A wave of car bombs exploded across Baghdad on Saturday, killing more than 60 people, and militants stormed a university campus in western Iraq, security and medical sources said. In total, there were a dozen blasts in mainly Shi’ite districts of the capital, the deadliest of which occurred in Bayaa, where a car bomb left 23 people dead, many of them young men playing billiards. “I was about […]