Bombs explode near Baghdad shrine
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BAGHDAD -- Two nearly simultaneous car bombs rocked the district containing Baghdad's most revered Shi'ite Muslim shrine yesterday in an apparent attempt to escalate sectarian bloodshed and derail the latest security plan.
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KERBALA, Iraq  - A bomb exploded near the offices  of a senior Shi'ite cleric in the Iraqi holy city of Kerbala on  Wednesday, killing eight people and wounding 32, police and  doctors said.
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BAGHDAD -- A pair of suicide bombers detonated explosives yesterday among shoppers in a crowded outdoor market in a Shi'ite city south of Baghdad, killing at least 45 people and wounding 150, police said. Bombs and a mortar attack killed at least 17 others in both Shi'ite and Sunni areas of Baghdad.
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BAGHDAD -- A vegetable truck rigged with explosives blew up yesterday outside a Shi'ite mosque northeast of Baghdad, and gunmen sprayed automatic fire into a bakery in a Shi'ite district of the capital in sectarian violence that killed at least 23 people.
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A truck bomber attacked a revered Shiite shrine in the heart of Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least 78 people and wounding more than 200 in a resumption of Iraq's relentless sectarian slaughter. The mosque's turquoise dome survived, but the blast buried some worshippers and badly burned others.
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Insurgents detonated at least two bombs near a US military convoy in southern Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 16 people, while a suicide bomber killed two Iraqi police and a US soldier west of the capital.
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Suspected al Qaeda militants blew up two minarets of a revered Shi'ite mosque in the Iraqi city of Samarra on Wednesday, targeting a shrine bombed last year in an attack that sparked a wave of sectarian killing.
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A series of powerful explosions Saturday rocked Baghdad, targeting the Green Zone where the US and British embassies are located. There were no immediate reports of losses or damage
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A series of bombs went off in rapid succession in a shopping district in a main Christian neighborhood of Baghdad on Wednesday, killing nine people and wounding 71, police said.
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Militants detonated a car bomb near a Shi'ite mosque in Baghdad on Friday, the Muslim holy day, intensifying efforts to drive a wedge between Iraq's religious communities ahead of elections nine days away.
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Two suicide bombers blew themselves up Tuesday in a crowd of Shi'ite pilgrims streaming toward a shrine south of Baghdad, killing 93 people
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A bomb exploded Monday near a US military convoy in central Baghdad, causing some casualties, the Iraqi Interior Ministry said. Spokesman Col.
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Nearly simultaneous bombs struck commuters in a predominantly Shiite area on the southeastern edge of Baghdad on Wednesday, killing at least eight people and wounding two dozen, police and hospital officials said
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Insurgents detonated at least two bombs  near a U.S. military convoy in southern Baghdad on Thursday,  killing at least 16 people, while a suicide bomber killed two  Iraqi police and a U.S. soldier west of the capital.
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A bomb exploded on Wednesday near a shrine in Iraq&#39;s Karbala, killing 7 people and injuring more than 30 others, said reports reaching here from the Shiite holy city.
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A powerful blast in the vicinity of the Jordanian embassy in Baghdad killed at least two people and injured 13 on Sunday, witnesses and hospital officials said.
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Two bombs exploded in a market near a highly revered Shiite shrine in Najaf on Thursday, killing at least 24 people and injuring 30, doctors said.