At Least 41 Dead In Multiple Car Bombings – Iraq

Car bombing attacks in Baghdad and northern Iraq killed at least 41 people on Monday, police sources said. According to Reuters, two truck bombs killed 25 people and injured 75 near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. The bombs destroyed about 30 homes in the village of Khazna, 20 km north of Mosul.

In the capital, two car bombs killed 16 people and injured 81 in the southwest of the city, police said. The first bomb went off at Hay al-Amel, in the west of Baghdad, killing nine people and wounding 46. The second blast took place in Shurta Arbaa in the north of the city killing seven people and injuring 35 others.

Truck Bomb Targeting NATO Troops Kills 25 in Afghanistan

A logging truck rigged with explosives detonated near Afghanistan’s capital, killing 25 people Thursday morning, local officials said.

The attack near Kabul seemed to be targeted at NATO troops in the area, but there were no reports of casualties or injuries to coalition troops, said Deen Mohammed Darwesh, a spokesman for the governor of Logar province.

Twenty-one civilians and four policemen were killed in the attack, said Zamarai Bashari, spokesman for the Interior Ministry.

Ten other people were wounded in the attack. Many of the wounded were students going to school, the Interior Ministry spokesman said.

Car Bomb – Several Killed In Damascus Near Syrian Airport

At least 17 people have been killed and at least 14 injured in a car bomb attack in the Syrian capital Damascus, Syrian television reports.

The car bomb, which Syrian public television said contained about 200kg of explosives, detonated in a southern suburb of the capital on Saturday.

The bomb exploded close to a security post in the Sidi Qada district near the airport road, an Al Jazeera correspondent in Damascus reported, but all of the victims are believed to be civilians.

No group or individual has so far claimed responsibility for the attack.