Terrorist incidents in Iraq

A gathering of solidarity will be held Wednesday in Athens in the wake of the Berlin truck terror attack.

The event, which is being organized via social media, will be held outside the Goethe Institute (14-16 Omirou), at 7 p.m.

Turkish police are investigating the movements of the car that was used in an attack in the Central Anatolian province of Kayseri on Dec. 17, which claimed the lives of 14 soldiers, focusing particularly on what it did after arriving in the province. 

A suicide attack in an oasis town south of Baghdad killed eight people and wounded at least six on Monday, Iraqi officials said.
The attack in Ain al-Tamer involved six suicide bombers, some of whom may have been killed by security forces before they could blow themselves up.

Three car bombs have killed dozens of people in Baghdad, Iraq.

The first explosion occurred in a commercial area in a predominantly Shia neighbourhood of Baghdad, killing at least 63 people and wounding dozens of others, the Guardian says.

Three bombs went off in and around Baghdad on May 2, killing at least 14 people, including Shiite Muslim worshippers conducting an annual pilgrimage inside the capital, police and medical sources said.

Militants unleashed on April 4 a wave of suicide attacks across Iraq, killing at least 29 people and wounding dozens, officials said.
   
The deadliest attack took place in the southern province of Dhi Qar when a suicide bomber blew himself up inside a restaurant that is frequented by Shiite paramilitary militia fighters, killing at least 14 people.
     

An explosion occurred near a bus stop in Turkey’s predominantly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir, killing four people and wounding at least 14, local media report.

The blast reportedly took place as an armored vehicle carrying men of police special forces was passing the bus station.

30 people were killed in Iraq Monday when a suicide bomber drove a car with explosives into a convoy of military vehicles. The terrorist was a British born Muslim known by the name ‘Abu Mussa al Britani and detonated his car while approaching an Iraqi military convoy near the air base of Ain al-Assad in central Iraq.

Click through to see photos from the aftermath of suicide attack in Istanbul which killed five and injured at least 20

At least 37 have been killed and 125 have been wounded as a car bomb attack hit Turkey’s capital late on March 13. The blast marks the third major explosion in Ankara since October 2015