Iraqi Minister Sought in Assassination Attempt
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BAGHDAD, June 26 -- Iraqi law enforcement officials stretched a dragnet over the Green Zone and other parts of the capital Tuesday, seeking to arrest the country's culture minister in connection with an attempted political assassination two years ago in which three people were killed, Iraqi...
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Iraq&#39;s interim defense minister has lashed out at neighbors Iran and Syria, accusing them of aiding wanted terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and Saddam Hussein loyalists in Iraq.
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A convoy carrying Ahmad Chalabi, the leader of the Iraqi National Congress, was today attacked in an apparent assassination attempt that left two of his bodyguards wounded.
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The top education ministry official in the oil-rich northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk has been assassinated by unknown assailants. &quot;Ibrahim Ismail was killed on the main road as he was heading to the technological
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A woman pulled a pistol on Iraq's defense minister in his office but then broke down in tears in a failed assassination plot hatched by an Iraqi group in Syria, the minister said in comments published on Saturday. Hazim al-Shaalan told the pan-Arab al-Hayat newspaper the 40-year-old woman had drawn the gun, loaded with poisoned bullets, during a meeting with him and other officials more than one week ago.
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BAGHDAD A senior Oil Ministry official was killed Wednesday by gunmen on his way to work, the ministry&#39;s spokesman said. The official, Hussein Ali al-Fattal, director general of the ministry&#39;s oil byproducts
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraqi law enforcement officials stretched a dragnet over the Green Zone and other parts of the capital yesterday, seeking to arrest the country's culture minister in connection with an attempted political assassination two years ago in which three people were killed, Iraqi officials said.
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BAGHDAD - Gunmen in Iraq shot and killed the deputy governor of Baghdad on Monday, said Iraqi officials. Hatem Karem was assassinated in a drive-by shooting, while two of his body guards were wounded in the attack.
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A group linked to al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi said it had tried to kill Iraq&#39;s environment minister on Tuesday and warned it would not miss next time, according to an Internet statement.
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An official at Iraq&#39;s Science and Technology Ministry along with a female civil servant were shot dead in Baghdad, where two car bombs also exploded as insurgents stepped up attacks on Iraqis working with US forces, officials said.
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BAGHDAD : Two ministers in Iraq&#39;s US-backed interim government escaped bomb attacks on Tuesday, in which at least five people were killed and six wounded in Baghdad, a bodyguard and official aide said.
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A group linked to al Qaeda ally Abu Musab  al-Zarqawi said it had tried to kill Iraq's environment  minister on Tuesday and warned it would not miss next time,  according to an Internet statement.
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Iraq&#39;s interim prime minister has threatened to attack Falluja unless it turns in foreign militants, but a negotiator for the rebel-held city says its people are being asked to chase shadows.
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The Iraqi interior minister promises the families of six murdered Red Caps he will try to bring their killers to justice.
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Iraqi minister says Shia militia could have been behind abductions from government building.
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Gunmen opened fire Wednesday on a convoy carrying former Iraqi Governing Council member Ahmad Chalabi in an apparent assassination attempt that wounded two of his bodyguards, Chalabi&#39;s spokesman said.
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Insurgents tried to assassinate Iraq's  environment and education ministers in separate bombings on  Tuesday that killed five of their bodyguards and wounded more  than a dozen people, officials said.