Iraq Violence Spreads North
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(CBS/AP) Ten policemen were killed in two separate attacks south of Baghdad on Tuesday, and two car bombs exploded in the insurgent stronghold of Ramadi, killing four Iraqis and prompting clashes between US troops and gunmen.
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Elsewhere on Wednesday, insurgents attacks Iraqi security forces around the rebellious Sunni Triangle. The region is a large swath of land to the north and west of Baghdad where resistance to the Americans is fiercest.
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US and Iraqi forces clashed with insurgents in northern Iraq on Saturday after launching an operation to destroy an alleged militant cell in the town of Tal Afar, the US military said.
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The Electoral Commission of Iraq made the announcement after violence surged through central and northern Iraq on Saturday.
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A suicide truck bomber blasted a Shiite town north of Baghdad on Saturday, killing more than 100 people, police said, in a sign Sunni insurgents are pulling away from a U.S. offensive around the capital to attack where security is thinner.
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U.S. troops battled insurgents in northern Iraq early Sunday in clashes that left two dead and 32 wounded, officials said.
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Iraqi police say a tanker has exploded north of Baghdad, killing six people and injuring more than 100.
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Iraqi officials say insurgents fired mortars at an Iraqi National Guard headquarters in al-Mushahida,) north of Baghdad Tuesday. News reports say there were heavy casualties, but no figure was immediately available.
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BAGHDAD, Feb. 10 -- A series of bombings targeting Iraqi security forces and American-backed Sunni guards killed as many as 37 people across northern Iraq on Sunday, according to Iraqi officials.
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Clashes broke out between insurgents and Iraqi security forces in northern Baghdad on Friday, a police source said.
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Clashes broke out between insurgents  and Iraqi security forces in northern Baghdad on Friday, a  police source said.
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BAGHDAD - Insurgents stepped up attacks, blasting US patrols in Baghdad and killing a US soldier north of the capital. Other clashes also occurred north of Baghdad, where US and Iraqi forces fought a three
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US and Iraqi forces have launched a major offensive against a town suspected of harboring insurgents in northern Iraq. At least eight people have been killed and dozens injured in the fighting in Tal Afar Saturday.
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Iraqi officials say insurgents attacked several police posts in an area north of Baghdad Tuesday, killing at least 18 policemen and wounding several others.
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Insurgents kill at least three foreigners in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, local police say.
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Insurgents attacked two oil pipelines in northern Iraq on Tuesday, halting oil exports from there to Turkey and forcing a power station to be shut down, police and officials said.
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U.S. and Iraqi forces on Tuesday raided a sweets factory being used as a headquarters by suspected Sunni insurgents in northern Iraq, which has seen a recent rise in violence as militants have fled a nearly 4-month-old security crackdown in Baghdad.