Attacks kill 8, injure 18 across Iraq

December 25th, 2013

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

At least 8 people have been killed and eighteen others injured in a string of attacks across Iraq, officials say.

According to the officials who spoke on condition of anonymity on Wednesday, a bomb went off in a commercial street in Baghdad’s western Amariyah neighborhood, killing four people and wounding 10 others.

In another bombing incident in the Abu Ghraib area, just west of the Iraqi capital two people were killed and eight others wounded, according to the officials.

Officials also said that two policemen were gunned down in the city of Ramadi, the capital of the western Anbar province, as they were heading to work.

No group has claimed responsibility for the deadly attacks, but systematic bombings are a favorite tactic of al-Qaeda-linked groups that according to Iraqi officials seek to destabilize the country.

On Tuesday, at least two Shia pilgrims were killed and seventeen others wounded after two blasts hit Iraq’s holy city of Karbala.

The United Nations says at least 8,000 people have lost their lives in Iraq so far this year.

Iraq’s Interior Ministry has said that militants have launched an open war in Iraq and they want to push the Middle Eastern country into chaos.

“The country is currently facing an open war from bloodthirsty sectarian forces that aim to plunge the country into chaos,” the Interior Ministry said in a statement issued on July 30.

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