Baghdad Operations Command announced Thursday that nine civilians were wounded when six bombs exploded in the Shaab district north of the capital. “Five explosive devices went off this morning [Thursday] in different parts of the northern region of Baghdad,” the command said in a statement, pointing out that “a sixth ...
The UN’s cultural agency called for emergency measures on Thursday to prevent further looting at the historic Iraqi city of Nimrud which has been wrecked by the so-called ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIL) terrorist group. Nimrud, founded in the 13th century BC on the Tigris river about ...
