A powerful suicide car bomb attack in the Afghan capital Kabul, wounded at least three on Monday. The bomber was being chased through the streets by police when he detonated his explosives on an empty street, resulting in few casualities.
A British civilian was injured on Monday when insurgents carried out a rocket attack on a 4 wheel drive vehicle in the centre of the southern Iraqi city of Basra. The civilian was travelling in the car, thought to belong to a foreign civilian company.
Japanese forces positioned in the Iraqi city of Samawa, started to withdraw from the region on Sunday and began by pulling out 19 Japanese military vehicles to Kuwait.Date: 25 June 2006
270 dismissed Iraqi policemen in Samawa gathered on Sunday and marched toward the Samawa governorship to protest their discharge from work. The policemen were dismissed for an undisclosed reason. Security guards blocked protesters at the governorship, opening fire to disperse the crowd.
Historical artifacts, mostly looted during the Iraqi war, are now sold legally, as are pictures of deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, being sold as antiquities in shops.
A mortar targeting the US base in the northern Iraqi district of Fallujah exploded in the middle of the car market and wounded more than 20 Iraqi residents on Tuesday.
A car bomb exploded at a petrol station in central Kirkuk on Tuesday killing five and injuring 22, after a roadside bomb explosion which injured three Iraqi policemen.
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