Rumsfeld visits Baghdad as blasts kill up to 18
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Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld visited Iraq to gauge efforts to calm violence ahead of January elections. &quot;They know they cannot defeat us militarily.
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Black smoke filled the skies over central Baghdad just before midday Monday as a car bomb exploded in a busy commercial district, killing 18 people and wounding 42 others, Baghdad police said.
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Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld flew into Mosul, Iraq, early on Friday in a surprise Christmas Eve trip to visit wounded soldiers after a deadly attack, and at a
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As many as 18 people - including an American soldier â-ere killed yesterday as two car bombs went off in Baghdad. The explosions took place as Defense Secretary Donald
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An explosion killed up to 17 people in  Baghdad Sunday hours before Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld  arrived to gauge efforts to calm violence ahead of January  elections.
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In Iraq, interim Prime Minister, Iyad Allawi, has visited Baghdad&#39;s violence-ridden Sadr City. Earlier, three people were killed and at least nine wounded in a mortar attack on the neighborhood.
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BAGHDAD - US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, on a surprise visit to Iraq, has predicted that violence will increase ahead of January&#39;s election.
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The American Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, has made a surprise visit to Iraq to assess rising violence and increased security breaches.
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BAGHDAD, July 23 -- A string of car bomb attacks left at least 17 people dead in Baghdad on Monday, many of them civilians killed by three blasts in one of the city's busiest neighborhoods. Police said 21 people died in other violent incidents across the country.
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At least 18 people were killed in a suicide bombing on Saturday, capping a week of horrific violence in Iraq as al-Qaeda-linked militants threatened to kill two American and a British hostage in 48 hours.
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At least 37 people were killed in Baghdad today as three bombs exploded while a US convoy was passing. More than 50 other people were wounded.
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A rocket attack and suicide car bombing killed at least four people in Baghdad Sunday as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld began an unannounced visit to Iraq to gauge efforts to calm violence before January elections.
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BAGHDAD - Two suicide car-bombings killed at least 17 people in Baghdad yesterday as US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld began an unannounced visit to Iraq.
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Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld is in Iraq, a Pentagon spokesman said Saturday.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Car bombers struck twice in rapid succession in the capital Sunday, killing at least 11 people including an American soldier, as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld warned that violence may increase before the January election.    Rocket-propelled grenade explosions and machine gun fire rocked the insurgent stronghold of Ramadi, west of Baghdad, late Sunday...
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A blast kills three near the oil ministry in Baghdad, as US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld arrives in Iraq.
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A spate of car bombings rocked Baghdad on Thursday, killing more than 20 people, including a US soldier and two Iraqi police officers, according to Iraqi and US officials.