Gunmen pulled factory workers off
buses northeast of Baghdad and killed 47 of them, a provincial council member said.
The victims who worked for a brick factory were traveling
in three buses when they were stopped at a checkpoint in
the Nahrawan (...)
A car bomb targeting an Iraqi police
patrol exploded near a market north of Baghdad, killing at least five people and injuring 15, police said.
The bomb was detonated by remote control shortly after
10.35, police said.
Baqouba, a city 60 (...)
Gunmen opened fire on a minibus
carrying Iraqi workers to a U.S. airbase in central Iraq,
killing 13, police said Tuesday.
Police Col. Mahdi Saleh, from Khalis police force, said 13
people were killed when assailants in two cars attacked (...)
The deputy governor of a tense province north of Baghdad escaped an assassination attempt Saturday after gunmen fired at his convoy, the official said.
Diyala's deputy governor, Aouf Rahoumi, said one of his
bodyguards was wounded and two cars in (...)
Insurgents launched a series of
apparently coordinated attacks in and around this city
north of the Iraqi capital on Monday, killing at least 12
people and wounding 26 others, police and medical officials
said.
Police Col. Mudhafar al-Jubbori (...)
Masked gunmen on Tuesday assassinated a Sunni cleric north of Baghdad, police said _ the second
such killing in as many days.
Sheik Ghalib Ali al-Zuhairi was a member of the
Association of Muslim Scholars, an influential Sunni
clerics group that (...)
Baqouba police arrested two separate
terrorist cells suspected of carrying out several attacks
against police, officials said Sunday, as leaflets were
being distributed throughout the central Iraqi city warning
government offices to stay closed (...)
Three Diyala provincial officials
were shot down Sunday by unknown assailants as they were on
their way to a funeral for a fourth colleague killed earlier in the week, Iraqi officials said.
Jassim Mohammed, a governor's aide for refugee (...)
A police patrol in Baqouba was
ambushed overnight, injuring nine people, Iraqi police said
Monday
The patrol was hit with gunfire by unknown assailants at
12:30 am Monday in the al-Umal area of Baqouba, said police
Lt. Ziyad Tareq. Seven of the (...)
Gunmen in two cars opened fire
Tuesday on a van carrying policemen home from work, killing
11 officers and a civilian, police and hospital officials
said.
The incident occurred when the policemen were returning to
their station after they were (...)
A roadside bomb wounded three members of the Iraqi National Guard on Monday and two civilians were killed in a
mortar attack north of the Iraqi capital,
witnesses said.
The three guardsmen were wounded when a bomb went off near their vehicle in (...)
A police vehicle hit a roadside bomb,
triggering an explosion that killed one person and injured
six in this city north of Baghdad, police and hospital
officials said.
The police were on patrol when the blast occurred at 10:00
a.m. (0600 GMT), (...)
