Rockets Hit Downtown Baghdad Sheraton
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BAGHDAD, Iraq Oct. 7, 2004 - Rockets struck a Baghdad hotel housing foreign contractors and journalists late Thursday, drawing return fire and underscoring the precarious security in the heart of the Iraqi capital.
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Fifteen civilians were killed after a rocket slammed into a hotel Sunday night in the northern Iraqi city of Tikrit. Eyewitnesses said the blast at the Sunubar Hotel sent frightened bloodstained guests running into the streets for help.
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A column of smoke is seen from behind Baghdad&#39;s Green Zone Thursday, Nov. 25 2004. Several explosions echoed Thursday across Iraq&#39;s capital of Baghdad, as thick black smoke rose above the heavily protected Green Zone.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - An area outside the Sheraton Hotel in central Baghdad burst into flames Thursday night after several rockets were fired and loud blasts were heard.
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Strong explosions shook central Baghdad, and fighting erupted on a major street in the heart of the city near the US-guarded Green Zone.
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In an attack which is the second of its kind yesterday, several persons were killed and others injured in a booby trapped car explosion near an American military vehicle in al-Ameerat (princesses) streets in al-Mansour quarters in the downtown of Baghdad
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Two explosions rocked Baghdad's fortified Green Zone compound, which houses government offices and the U.S. embassy.
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More than a dozen explosions shook  central Baghdad at dawn on Sunday and thick plumes of smoke  rose above the Green Zone compound housing Iraq's interim  government and assembly and the U.S. and other embassies.
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A mortar rocket has landed in a busy square in central Baghdad, killing four people and wounding 14, Iraqi police say. A policeman at the scene said the mortar had landed in a square on
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BAGHDAD At least five mortar rounds exploded in central Baghdad on Thursday, including two in the Green Zone, the enclave that houses Iraq&#39;s interim administration and several foreign embassies.
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Security guards at the Palestine hotel said two rockets hit the nearby Sheraton hotel, shattering windows and filling the main lobby of the hotel with smoke and debris.
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Shortly after the attack on the Sheraton and Palestine Hotels bursts of gunfire could be heard echoing across the area. At least two rockets hit the hotel.
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BAGHDAD Two rockets hit a central Baghdad hotel housing foreigners and journalists on Thursday and gunfire erupted in the neighborhood, which is across the Tigris River from the US Embassy compound.
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Rockets slammed into an Iraqi housing complex near the Baghdad international airport and a nearby U.S. military base on Monday, killing at least five people and wounding 16, including two U.S. soldiers, officials said.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Militants fired rockets at a hotel housing foreigners in the heart of Baghdad on Thursday night, causing minor damage, while U.S. officials said two American soldiers were killed by roadside bombs outside the capital and authorities arrested 20 Iraqis suspected of planting homemade explosives...
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A rocket attack aimed at a passing US convoy on a commercial street in northern Baghdad killed four Iraqis and wounded 14 others Friday, the US military and Iraqi security forces said.
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Insurgents fired two rockets into the Ishtar Sheraton Hotel in central Baghdad tonight, setting rooms ablaze and forcing the temporary evacuation of scores of journalists