Great Satan US Genocide: Fresh wave of violence kills over 50 people in Iraq

Fifty-one people have been killed in a wave of violent attacks in Iraq amid a surge of violence that has claimed over 6,000 lives in the country so far this year.

Seven people were found dead on Friday in Salaheddin province, north of the capital Baghdad.

The victims, all maintenance workers and laborers at a local football field, had their throats cut.

The bodies of three women were also found in eastern Baghdad, while bearing signs of torture. According to Iraqi officials, the women were shot in the head earlier in the day.

On Friday morning, authorities also discovered the bodies of 18 kidnapped men dumped in farmland near the town of Tarmiyah, just north of the capital.

The victims – among them two tribal chiefs, four policemen and an army major – had been shot in the head and chest, hours after being seized by a group reportedly wearing military uniform.

Officials said 23 people were also killed in separate attacks that struck in and around Baghdad as well as the cities of Mosul in the northern province of Nineveh, Baqouba in the eastern province of Diyala, and Kirkuk.

Among them were a bombing against a football pitch in west Baghdad that killed five, and a shooting attack that left six people dead in the capital’s east.

Violence has surged across Iraq in recent months, reaching its highest level since 2008.

In October, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki warned that Iraq is facing a “war of genocide,” blaming al-Qaeda militants for killing thousands of people in the country.

Data released by Iraq’s ministries of health, interior and defense on November 1 showed that carnage in the country killed 964 people and injured 1,600 others in October alone.