At least 16 people were killed and 72 others injured Sunday morning May 22 in a series of bombings in Baghdad and the outskirts of Baghdad. Within hours, 12 roadside bombs and three car bombs exploded, plus a suicide bomber. The new violence has also targeted the security forces, targeted insurgents recurrent groups to seven months of final withdrawal of U.S.
forces. The deadliest attack was a double bombing at about 9 pm local time (8:00 in Paris) in Taji, 25 km north of Baghdad, exploded a car bomb followed by a suicide bomber when police and emergency crews arrived on the scene. The twin bombings killed 10 people, including 6 policemen and 15 wounded, including 10 police officers, said on condition of anonymity officials from the ministries of interior and defense.
A captain and a lieutenant were among the killed, the official Department of the Interior. Other attacks have also resulted in 6 dead and 55 wounded in several Baghdad neighborhoods. In the south of the capital, four bombs exploded in a street near a police station in the Amel neighborhood before a car bomb exploded in turn, making a total of two dead and 15 wounded.
Also in the south, a bomb left three injured in the Saidiya area. In the poor neighborhood of Sadr City (northwest), a bomb against a hospital left two people dead and seven wounded, while another attack against a market wounding seven people. Witnesses said one of the explosions was the result of a car bomb.
In the Al-Talbiya (north), a car bomb blew up the convoy of a general ministry of the interior, leaving one dead and five wounded, including two bodyguards of the officer. Another bomb near the square Wassiq (center) was one dead and 12 wounded. In the east of the capital, six people were injured by a homemade bomb at a passing police patrol, and two others were injured by two bombs that targeted the car of an employee of the Baghdad Chamber of operations In the area of al-Kanaat.
The violence in Iraq are not commensurate with the level they had reached the height of sectarian clashes in 2006 and 2007, but the attacks continue daily. A total of 211 Iraqis died in bombings in April. The violence posed the question of the ability of Iraqi forces to assume security alone, while U.S.
forces are preparing to withdraw from the country at the end of the year, under a bilateral agreement. 
forces. The deadliest attack was a double bombing at about 9 pm local time (8:00 in Paris) in Taji, 25 km north of Baghdad, exploded a car bomb followed by a suicide bomber when police and emergency crews arrived on the scene. The twin bombings killed 10 people, including 6 policemen and 15 wounded, including 10 police officers, said on condition of anonymity officials from the ministries of interior and defense.
A captain and a lieutenant were among the killed, the official Department of the Interior. Other attacks have also resulted in 6 dead and 55 wounded in several Baghdad neighborhoods. In the south of the capital, four bombs exploded in a street near a police station in the Amel neighborhood before a car bomb exploded in turn, making a total of two dead and 15 wounded.
Also in the south, a bomb left three injured in the Saidiya area. In the poor neighborhood of Sadr City (northwest), a bomb against a hospital left two people dead and seven wounded, while another attack against a market wounding seven people. Witnesses said one of the explosions was the result of a car bomb.
In the Al-Talbiya (north), a car bomb blew up the convoy of a general ministry of the interior, leaving one dead and five wounded, including two bodyguards of the officer. Another bomb near the square Wassiq (center) was one dead and 12 wounded. In the east of the capital, six people were injured by a homemade bomb at a passing police patrol, and two others were injured by two bombs that targeted the car of an employee of the Baghdad Chamber of operations In the area of al-Kanaat.
The violence in Iraq are not commensurate with the level they had reached the height of sectarian clashes in 2006 and 2007, but the attacks continue daily. A total of 211 Iraqis died in bombings in April. The violence posed the question of the ability of Iraqi forces to assume security alone, while U.S.
forces are preparing to withdraw from the country at the end of the year, under a bilateral agreement.
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