Iraq, June 26: A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol killed one officer and wounded five in Iraq’s main northern city of Mosul on Saturday.
Mosul has remained a hotbed of insurgent activity even as levels of political violence have fallen off in much of the rest of the country.
On Thursday, three suicide bombers killed four police and a soldier in separate attacks in the city.
The province is split between Sunni Arab and Kurdish communities who are bitterly divided over the ambitions of Kurdish leaders to incorporate large parts of it into their autonomous region in the north. It also has Assyrian, Shabak, Turkmen and Yazidi minorities.
Al-Qaeda has exploited the ethnic and confessional differences to make the province one of its enduring
—Agencies