11 people died in bomb attacks in iraq

Baghdad (News and Us)-Three bomb attacks in Iraq on Wednesday, killing 11 people, including four members of the militia opponents of Al Qaeda who was killed in a suicide bombing when they gather to wait for payment of salaries, officials said.

The attacker detonated her explosives at the foot of a police station in Fallujah, West of Baghdad, when militia members That gathered near the Office, said Police Lt. Col. Khaled Yassir al-Jumaili.

The explosion that killed five people, including a senior police officer and four members of That, as well as the wounding of 15 others.

Near Ramadi, like Fallujah, the restive Anbar province, a car bomb explosion killed three policemen, including an officer, said Police Captain Marwan al-Dulaimi and a doctor.

In Baghdad, a car bomb explosion also in the Al-Husseiniyah area killing three people and injuring 10 others, officials said.

The attacks Wednesday came after a wave of violence killed more than 240 people in seven days at the end of April, which raises concerns about the return of sectarian violence that killed tens of thousands of people.

Violence is the last of a wave of bombings and suicide attacks in the middle of a political crisis between Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and his Government partners and protest marches over the past few weeks demanding his resignation.

More than 450 people were killed in violence in April, according to an AFP count based on information from security officials and a medic, while the number of deaths in March reached 271.

Throughout February, 220 people were killed in violence in Iraq, according to an AFP based on information from security sources and medical.

Iraq is engulfed in political chaos and violence that killed thousands of people since u.s. forces completed a withdrawal from the country on 18 December 2011, leaving security responsibilities to Iraq troops.

In addition to having problems with the Kurds, Iraq's Government is also at odds with Sunni groups.

Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki (Shiite) since 2010 seeking the arrest of Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi on charges of terrorism and attempting to dismiss Deputy Prime Minister Saleh al-absolute. Both are Sunni leaders.

Iraq officials issued an arrest warrant for Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi on December 19, 2011 after they gain recognition that link with terrorist activities.

Dozens of guards of Hashemi, a Sunni Arab leader, was arrested a few weeks after the announcement, but it was not clear how many people were now on hold.

Hashemi, who denied the allegations, was hiding in the Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq, and Kurdish leaders refused to pass them to Baghdad.

The Kurdish government even allowed the regional visit to Hashemi did Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey. (M014)

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Afghanistanian are killed in bomb attack

Kandahar, Afghanistan (News and Us)-a roadside bomb Blast that was installed the Taliban killed a senior member of the Peace Council, Afghanistan, Wednesday, officials said.

Shah Wali Khan, Chairman of the Peace Council (HPC) in the province of Helmand, the southern region, was killed along with two police bodyguards when the explosion hit the vehicle, reports AFP.

HPC is a government agency formed in 2010 to open negotiations with the Taliban, but the guerrilla group refused to negotiate with the envoys of President Hamid Karzai'S U.S.-backed.

Helmand provincial government said in a statement, Khan was traveling in the Gereshk area as part of the handover of security responsibility from the NATO-led troops to Afghanistan security forces.

The Taliban "to take advantage of opportunities to benefit our official envoys had done it" and detonated a bomb assembled under the vehicle, the statement said.

In the past the Taliban attacked the leaders of the HPC. In 2011, a suicide bomb attack killed the Council Chairman, Burhanuddin Rabbani.

Upcoming peace talks faced many obstacles, including chaos about who will represent the Taliban and Karzai's demands that his envoy should be a core part of the negotiations.

Search for a political solution is the priority when violence flared up in the South and East and combat international troops prepare withdraw from Afghanistan.

Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai and his Western nations have agreed that all foreign combat forces will return to their country by the end of 2014, but the West pledged to support continued after this time in the form of funds and training for Afghanistan's security forces.

NATO aims to train soldiers and police by the end of Afghanistan by the end of 2014 to ensure stability in the country, but challenges still ahead of us in the process of transition.

Desertion, poor assignments and low morale among major problems that complicate the commanders of NATO and Afghanistan.

In October 2011, the Taliban promised to fight until all foreign forces leave Afghanistan.

The Taliban, who ruled Afghanistan from 1996, waged a rebellion since ousted from power in the country by U.S.-led invasion in 2001 because of the Al Qaida leader refused to hand over Osama bin Laden, who is accused of responsibility for the attack in the United States which killed around 3,000 people on September 11, 2001.

About 130,000 members of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) led by NATO that come from dozens of countries sent to Afghanistan to help the Kabul Government battle the insurgency of the Taliban and its allies.

Taliban guerrillas rely heavily on the use of roadside bombs and suicide attacks against Afghanistan's Government and foreign troops stationed in the country.

Bomb assemblies known as IED (improvised explosives) resulted in 70-80 percent of the casualties to foreign troops in Afghanistan, according to the military. (M014)

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