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A general view shows destruction the day after a suicide bombing targeting a checkpoint at a main southern entrance to Baghdad, on March 30, 2017. | AFP

Iraq: Basra, Baghdad ISIS Bombings Claim 35 Lives

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | May 20, 2017 | Middle East

Terror group ISIS on Saturday claimed responsibility for two suicide bombings that ravaged Baghdad and southern Iraq by taking the lives of over 30 people and wounding dozens, said local officials. The bombings, which hit Iraq the previous night, came as Iraqi forces...

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This image taken from a militant website associated with Islamic State extremists, posted Saturday, May 23, 2015, purports to show a suicide bomber identified as a Saudi citizen with the nom de guerre Abu Amer al-Najdi, who carried out an attack on a Shi’ite mosque on May 22, 2015. (Militant photo via AP)

Opinion: The Pitiful Ideology of Suicide Bombers

by Ali Ibrahim | May 27, 2015 | Opinion

It must be admitted that the idea of suicide bombings is intimidating in itself. It contradicts our human nature and instincts of self-preservation. Suicide bombings do not take place in battlefields; instead their perpetrators sneak around among safe, civilian...

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People walk carrying belongings at the site of the explosion that occurred on Wednesday evening at the Duroy hotel in Raouche, in western Beirut, Lebanon, on June 26, 2014. (Reuters/Sharif Karim)

Lebanese tourism sector will not be affected by latest unrest—minister

by Paula Astih | Jun 26, 2014 | Middle East

Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—Lebanon’s vital tourism sector will not be affected by the latest unrest in the country, Tourism Minister Michel Pharaon told Asharq Al-Awsat. A spate of attacks has rocked Lebanon in recent weeks, with the latest a suicide bombing at a Beirut...

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Iraqi security forces inspect the site of a car bomb attack in Basra, Iraq, Sunday, March 17, 2013. Iraqi authorities say two car bombs have killed several people and wounded scores of others in the country’s south. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)

Basra Suffers Simultaneous Terrorist Attacks

by Fares Al-Sharifi | Mar 18, 2013 | Middle East

Basra, Asharq Al-Awsat—Basra, southern Iraq’s largest city and the country’s only seaport on the Gulf, was subjected to two simultaneous terrorist attacks yesterday, leaving 10 dead and 18 wounded according to security and medical sources. Ali Al-Maliki, head of the...