Fifteen people were killed Friday, June 28 in Iraq in attacks targeting police and Sahwa militia, fighting Al-Qaeda, with nearly 1,500 fatalities in three months in the country.
Iraq experienced since the beginning of a resurgence of violence amid protests of the Sunni minority and political stalemate that could last until elections scheduled in 2014, according to analysts.
Read series of deadly attacks in Baghdad
TWO BOMBS
"Nine people died and 21 were injured, most of them members of Sahwa, when two bombs exploded in Ramadi," the largest town in the province of Al-Anbar, 100 km west of Baghdad, said Colonel Joubeir Nayef, a member of Sahwa. He said that the first bomb, placed on the car of an officer of Sahwa, exploded before a second, asked roadside, not clashes amid a crowd that had formed. Dr. Ahmed Al-Aani of Ramadi General Hospital confirmed the death toll.
Sahwa was formed in 2006 at the height of the sectarian conflict that followed the U.S. invasion, led by tribal leaders in Sunni areas. This militia continues to fight against Al-Qaida, including erecting roadblocks and patrolling in sensitive areas. It is also the target of Sunni insurgents.
South of Baghdad, a Sahwa officer was found dead Friday in the aftermath of her kidnapping and Charqat, north of the capital, a Sahwa fighter was killed and four others wounded in a shootout. Also north of Baghdad, near the town of Dujail, a suicide bomber targeted a group of police killed four people and injured a dozen, officials said.
IRAQ TO FACE A WAVE OF VIOLENCE
Friday's violence is the latest in a series by more than 140 dead this week, including 27 Thursday, mainly in attacks against cafes.
They brought to 411 the number of deaths in Iraq in June, the third consecutive month in which the threshold is exceeded 400, according to a tally by AFP taken from official reports. The UN representative in the country, Martin Kobler, warned that Iraq was "ready to explode" and might revive the sectarian conflict in 2006-2007.
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