MOSUL: Attacks in Iraq killed 10 people yesterday, including eight security personnel, officials said, the latest casualties in a country-wide spike in violence that the government has failed to stem.
Iraq is mired its worst violence since 2008, a surge in bloodshed that has killed more than 5,500 people this year despite several major military operations and tightened security measures.
In the northern province of Nineveh, two separate roadside bombs targeting army patrols killed three soldiers and wounded four others. In Mosul, a policeman and a militant were killed in a shootout at a checkpoint, and a policeman was shot dead in a separate incident, police and a doctor said.AFP
