BAGHDAD — Even with Iraqi security forces on a heightened state of alert in advance of Sunday’s national elections, dozens of Iraqis were killed on Wednesday in a devastating series of suicide bombings in the restive city of Baquba northeast of Baghdad.
FIVE police officers were killed and one was wounded today when a roadside bomb exploded in a volatile northeastern area of Iraq that is claimed by Arabs and Kurds, police said.
Groups taking part in Iraq’s March elections are targeted in a wave of bomb attacks.
BAGHDAD – A Shiite militant group in Iraq has posted an Internet video showing an American it says it abducted and who appears to be a contractor reported missing by the U.S. military.
BAGHDAD, (Reuters) – Twin car bombs killed at least 40 people and wounded 145 others on Friday in Iraq’s holy city of Kerbala as hundreds of thousands of Shi’ite pilgrims observed a major religious rite, health officials said.
BAGHDAD (AP) — A bomb planted on a parked motorcycle exploded Wednesday on the outskirts of the holy city of Karbala, killing at least 20 Shi’ite pilgrims and wounding more than 100 others amid tight security for the huge religious procession, officials said.
BAGHDAD – A female suicide bomber walking among Shiite pilgrims in Baghdad detonated an explosives belt on Monday, killing at least 41 people and wounding more than 100, officials said.
MOSUL, Iraq, Jan. 28 (UPI) — U.S. military forces in Iraq said they killed a major al-Qaida figure based in the restive northern city of Mosul during a recent operation with Iraqi soldiers.
BAGHDAD: A suicide attacker Tuesday blew up his vehicle as he raced it at Iraq’s forensics headquarters in central Baghdad, killing 18 people, injuring 80 and destroying the building, officials said.
Reporting from Baghdad – Militants bombed three hotel compounds in eastern Baghdad today.
