Topic: Baqouba

18 dead in attacks in Iraq's Diyala

Attacks in Iraq's confessionally mixed Diyala province, north of Baghdad, killed 18 people on Thursday, 10 of them in a market bombing in the town of Khalis, medical and security officials said.The bloodshed came as US Vice President Joe Biden was in ...

11 killed in attacks on Iraq security forces

Bomb and gun attacks against police and anti-Qaeda militiamen killed 11 people and wounded 38 across Iraq on Thursday, security officials said.The attacks come amid fears that security may worsen after the departure of US forces from Iraq. The roughly 34,000 American ...

Car bomb at Iraq funeral kills 10

A car bomb ripped through a funeral procession near a mosque in central Iraq on Friday evening, killing at least 10 people, part of nationwide violence that left 14 dead.The explosion occurred at around 5:30 pm (1430 GMT) outside the Nabi Ayub ...

Gunmen storm Iraq council building, at least 8 dead

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 ...

Iraq mass grave filled with Qaeda victims: police

Iraqi authorities uncovered a mass grave north of Baghdad on Saturday with 153 bodies of Al-Qaeda victims, many of them women, children and members of the security forces, police told AFP."Following a confession by a terrorist arrested two weeks ago in Baquba ...

Twin suicide blasts kill 16 in central Iraq

A suicide bomber rammed an ambulance packed with explosives into a security headquarters on Wednesday, killing 14 people in the second major attack against Iraqi forces in as many days.Another suicide attack in a nearby town killed two others and wounded a ...

Suicide blasts kill 33 ahead of Iraq polls

Three suicide bombings, including one carried out by an attacker who rode in an ambulance to hospital before blowing himself up, killed 33 people in central Iraq on Wednesday, just days before nationwide elections.The attacks came despite heightened security across the country ...

Suicide bombers kill 33 in Iraqi city before poll

BAQUBA, Iraq (Reuters) - Suicide bombers struck Iraq on Wednesday just days before a national election, killing 33 people and wounding 55 as the war-scarred nation seeks to cement its frail democracy before a U.S. troop pullout.The parliamentary poll on Sunday is ...

Suicide blasts kill 29 ahead of Iraq polls

Three powerful co-ordinated suicide attacks in the central Iraqi city of Baquba killed at least 29 people and wounded 42 on Wednesday, just days before nationwide parliamentary elections.The blasts struck a government building, a nearby traffic intersection and, later, the hospital where ...

Suicide attacks kill 29 ahead of Iraq polls

Three co-ordinated suicide attacks in the central Iraqi city of Baquba killed at least 29 people and wounded 42 on Wednesday, just days before parliamentary elections, a security official said.Police chief Major General Abdul Hussein al-Shimmari escaped unharmed but a number of ...
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