A spate of bombings in Baghdad and Mosul in Iraq left at least 100 civilians dead and hundreds more wounded.

伊拉克巴格达与摩苏尔地区的一连串爆炸致使至少100名平民死亡，数百人受伤。

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As the Americans and their Iraqi army Allies successfully hunt them down elsewhere in Iraq, many have gravitated to Mosul.

当美国人和其伊拉克军事盟友在伊拉克的其它地方成功追捕他们时，许多人逃到了摩苏尔。

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Earlier this year the archbishop of the ancient Chaldean church was abducted in Mosul and murdered.

今年早些时候，古老的Chaldean教堂大主教在摩苏尔被绑架并杀害。

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Baghdad TV showed pools of blood and chunks of cinderblock from the explosion of a bomb in the Kurdish village of Sinjar,near Mosul.

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and asked "What did they do?" In the northern city Mosul, a suicide bomber exploded a car near a checkpoint guarded by national and Kurdish forces.

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Again, the Iraqis have been pulling back without much of a fight and consolidating their positions around Kirkuk and Mosul.

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When the area was part of the Ottoman Empire prior to World War One, it was three separate provinces centered on Baghdad, Basra and Mosul, in recognition of its ethnic diversity.

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Asked about the two volatile regions of Baquba and Mosul, north of Baghdad, Odierno said he believes troops will withdraw from Baquba, but noted that Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki will have to make a decision about Mosul, where al Qaeda in Iraq militants have been active.

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