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U.S. Army Captain Michael Kelvington, commander of the Battle company, 1-508 Parachute Infantry battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, bows next to remains of Gulam Dostager, a member of Afghan Local Police who was killed in the blast of an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) during the joint Tor Janda (Black Flag in Pashtu) operation, in Zahri district of Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan May 25, 2012. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: MILITARY CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

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U.S. Army Captain Michael Kelvington, commander of the Battle company, 1-508 Parachute Infantry battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, bows next to remains of Gulam Dostager, a member of Afghan Local Police who was killed in the blast of an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) during the joint Tor Janda (Black Flag in Pashtu) operation, in Zahri district of Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan May 25, 2012. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: MILITARY CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

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FACTBOX: Security developments in Iraq, Dec 15

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Mon Dec 15, 2008 5:38am EST

(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 0830 GMT on Monday.

KHAN DHARI - Five people were killed and 35 wounded when a car bomb exploded near a police checkpoint and an adjacent market in the area of Khan Dhari, in the western outskirts of Baghdad, police said. Another police source said it was a suicide attack.

MOSUL - Gunmen killed seven people from a single family, members of the minority Yazidi sect, when they stormed into their home in the town of Sinjar, 390 km (240 miles) northwest of Baghdad, police said.

MOSUL - Gunmen killed a woman in her home in eastern Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

(Reporting by Aseel Kami)
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