{"id":21285,"date":"2018-11-06T05:23:28","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T05:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=21285"},"modified":"2018-11-06T05:23:28","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T05:23:28","slug":"stone-throwers-face-different-fates-around-the-globe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=21285","title":{"rendered":"Stone throwers face different fates around the globe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1399976\/middle-east\" readability=\"54\">\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">\nBAGHDAD: Explosions in several Shiite-majority districts in Iraq\u2019s capital late Sunday killed six people, most of them civilians, and wounded several others, police and medical sources said.<br \/>In northern Baghdad\u2019s Aden roundabout area, two civilians were killed and another six wounded by a blast near a bus stop, the sources told AFP.<br \/>A bomb in the nearby Tarmiyah neighborhood targeted a military convoy, killing a soldier and wounding two others.<br \/>A government employee was killed in the southwestern area of Al-Sahha when explosives attached under his car were detonated, according to a police officer and medical source.<br \/>In the eastern district of Sadr City, two people were killed and four wounded in two explosions in the Shiite neighborhood.<br \/>And two other blasts went off on buses in other parts of Baghdad\u2019s northeast, wounding seven.<br \/>There was no immediate claim of responsibility for any of the explosions.<br \/>Sadr City is the former bastion of the Mahdi Army. Violence peaked in Iraq during 2006 and 2007, when sectarian tensions were at their highest.<br \/>But it has fallen across Iraq and particularly Baghdad since the government declared victory over Daesh in December.<br \/>Clandestine militant cells remain across the country and have waged guerrilla-type attacks against government posts.<br \/>Separately, the Iraqi Foreign Ministry rejected recently what it called US interference in its affairs after the US Embassy issued a statement telling neighboring Iran to respect Iraq\u2019s sovereignty.<br \/>The US Embassy in Baghdad had posted a message on Twitter saying Tehran must \u201crespect the sovereignty of the Iraqi government and permit the disarming, demobilization, and reintegration\u201d of Shiite militias.<br \/>It was one of several statements issued on the embassy\u2019s Twitter account outlining US demands before new US sanctions on Iran\u2019s oil and financial sector took effect on Nov. 4. The sanctions worry Iraq as it imports crucial supplies from Iran.<br \/>Iraq\u2019s Foreign Ministry said in a statement it \u201crejects interference in Iraq\u2019s internal affairs, especially domestic security reform\u201d and demanded the Twitter post be removed.<br \/>Washington and Tehran have competed for influence in Iraq since the 2003 US invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.<br \/>Iraq\u2019s Shiite militias, which took part in a US-backed campaign to defeat Daesh, were formally included in the security forces this year. Some militias are backed by Iran, a majority Shiite nation. Washington wants them disarmed. The US has said it would grant Baghdad a waiver on Iranian gas and energy imports that feed Iraqi power stations, and vital food items, Iraqi officials said on Friday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAGHDAD: Explosions in several Shiite-majority districts in Iraq\u2019s capital late Sunday killed six people, most of them civilians, and wounded several others, police and medical sources said.In northern Baghdad\u2019s Aden roundabout area, two civilians were killed and another six wounded by a blast near a bus stop, the sources told AFP.A bomb in the nearby&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":21286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}