Iraq suspends license to 10 satellite television channels - Brownsville Herald

class=”dateline”> Baghdad – At least six people were killed in various acts of violence in different cities in Iraq, while 23 others were arrested for their involvement in collisions with Iraqi forces, said a police source.

A suspected armed group attacked Iraqi army forces in the town of Al Namrud, 25 kilometers south of Mosul, 400 miles north of Baghdad, which led to clashes between the two sides for more than an hour.

These clashes killed three armed, according to the source.

In another incident, a lawyer was killed by an armed group near his home in the west of the city of Baquba, 65 kilometers northeast of Baghdad.

addition, the wife of a member of the so-called Salvation Councils (pro-government Sunni militia) killed by gunfire from a group of strangers in the town of Al Wayihia, 80 kilometers northeast of the capital.

An officer was killed and one of his relatives was injured in the Al Jisr, northeast of Baghdad.

Violence has spread Sunni-majority provinces in Iraq, scene of clashes and attacks that have killed nearly 150 people since last Tuesday.

Agence France Presse

realized Sunday that Iraq suspended licenses ten satellite television channels, especially Al Jazeera (Qatar), for “inciting violence and confessionalism” according to an official of the Authority for the Media and Communications.

“We have taken the decision to suspend the licenses of certain satellite channels that they adopted that incites violence and sectarianism,” said the director in charge of the media, Muyahed Abulheil.

last Tuesday in Iraq recorded a wave of violence that fears a repeat of the bloody sectarian conflict that followed the US-led invasion in 2003.

The ten channels

suspended chains include Iraqi Baghdad and Fallujah Alsharqiya.

license suspension “means the suspension of their work and their activities in Iraq,” he said, adding that such chains could no longer “covering events in Iraq or circular” in the country.