Topic: Baghdad
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi security forces have arrested 16 suspected al Qaeda members accused of being behind more than 100 killings in the capital, a senior security official said Sunday.General Ahmed Abu Ragheef, the Interior Ministry's head of internal affairs, accused the ...
Twin suicide bombs ripped through the city of Taji north of Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least 35 people, officials said, after Iraq suffered the year's deadliest month in June."Thirty-five people were killed and 28 wounded when a car bomb and an ...
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two explosions at a municipal government building in the Iraqi town of Taji on Tuesday killed at least 27 people and wounded 50 others, officials said.A car bomb and another explosive detonated in a crowded parking lot of the ...
Bomb and gun attacks across Iraq on Monday killed at least 10 people and wounded 28, many of them policemen and soldiers, security officials said.In Baghdad's Mansur neighbourhood, three policeman were killed and one wounded by an improvised bomb that also hurt ...
A suicide bomber in a wheelchair attacked a police station north of Baghdad on Sunday, killing two people and wounding 17, nine of them policemen, officials said."A suicide bomber detonated his explosives vest at the entrance to a police station, killing two ...
Explosives packed into three shopping carts ripped through a crowded market in the Iraqi capital on Thursday, killing at least 21 people and wounding 107, an interior ministry official said.And in other violence an American contractor was killed and four Iraqis died ...
Two suicide car bombs ripped through a guard post killing 26 people outside the provincial governor's home in Diwaniyah city on Tuesday, officials said, as violence surged across Iraq.Most of the dead were policemen, a medic said, while a defence ministry official ...
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Seven people were wounded on Monday when a French embassy convoy was hit by a make-shift bomb in Baghdad in the second attack on the mission's vehicles in a month, an embassy official and local police said.The attack in ...
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Gunmen on Tuesday stormed an Iraqi provincial council building in Baquba city -- northeast of Baghdad -- after two bombs exploded outside, killing at least 8 people and wounding 27 more, police and health officials said.The attack in Diyala ...
More than a dozen bomb attacks in and around Baghdad on Sunday left at least 19 Iraqis and two American soldiers dead and more than 80 other people wounded.The series of attacks comes just days after blasts against police in a tense ...