Clashes, mosques burned after worst Iraq bombing
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Gunmen killed dozens of people and burned mosques in a Sunni Arab enclave in Baghdad on Friday and clashes broke out in a Shi'ite district where car bombs killed 202 in the bloodiest bombing of the war on Thursday.
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The attack, the deadliest in Iraq in months, occurred in a southern city where rival Shiite groups have been battling for power.
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Car bombs and clashes have shaken the Iraqi capital Wednesday, killing at least 16 people and wounding dozens more. A suicide car bomber killed six people and wounded more than 50 outside a photocopy shop
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A vegetable truck rigged with explosives blew up Friday outside a Shiite mosque northeast of Baghdad, and gunmen sprayed automatic fire into a bakery in a Shiite district of the capital in sectarian violence that killed at least 23 people.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq, Dec. 15 - Iraq&#39;s election campaign season opened on a violent note when a bomb exploded Wednesday near the gate of one of Iraq&#39;s holiest Shiite shrines in the pilgrim city of Karbala, killing
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A bomb struck a Sunni mosque in Baghdad after Friday prayers, killing seven people and wounding five, while mortars barraged a Shiite mosque north of the capital, leaving five wounded.
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Some of the deadliest attacks against mosques in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003:
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Violence flared in Iraq on Saturday with a suicide car bomb attack in Kirkuk, a joint US-Iraqi offensive on Latifiya, and heavy clashes between US forces and insurgents in Tall Afar, leaving at least 42 dead.
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Bomb and mortar attacks killed at least   31 people in and near Baghdad on Saturday in violence that   showed no sign of easing despite a security crackdown against   al Qaeda in the capital.
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A bomb exploded on Wednesday at one gate of a holy Shiite shrine in Karbala, south of Baghdad, killing seven people in what seemed to be an attempt to kill an aide to a top Shiite cleric in the country and casting the shadow of violence at the first day
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At least 13 worshippers die in a car bombing at a Shia mosque in Iraq's capital, after threats of a long war from a militant leader.
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MOSUL, Iraq  - Gunmen bombed two churches in the  tense Iraqi city of Mosul on Tuesday, fueling fears of ethnic  and sectarian unrest ahead of an election next month.
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U.S. marines engaged in heavy clashes with scores of insurgents near a mosque in western Iraq on Monday, leading to U.S. air strikes which damaged the shrine and left it ablaze, the U.S. military said.
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Car bombs and clashes have shaken the Iraqi capital Wednesday, killing at least 17 people and wounding dozens more. A suicide car bomber killed seven people and wounded more than 50 outside a photocopy shop
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Four Sunni mosques were attacked today following yesterdayâs explosions at a revered Shiite shrine, but calm prevailed after curfews were imposed.
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Car bombs tore through a Najaf funeral procession and Karbala's main bus station Sunday, killing at least 60 people and wounding more than 120 in the two Shiite holy cities. In Baghdad, gunmen launched a bold ambush, executing three election officials, in their campaign to disrupt next month's parliamentary ballot.
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67 people are dead after separate suicide car bombings in the cities of Najaf and Karbala. Analysts say the bombers could be attempting to spark a civil war between Shiite and Sunni Muslims, since a large majority of Shiites populate the two holy cities.