Rocket barrage kills 46 as Iraq eyes U.S. handover
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Rockets slammed into homes in Baghdad   just before nightfall on Thursday, killing up to 46 people and   wounding well over 100, police sources said, adding that the   toll could rise as bodies were pulled from the rubble.
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SAMARRA, Iraq - U.S. and Iraqi forces launched a major assault Friday to regain control of the insurgent stronghold of Samarra, trading gunfire with militants as they pushed toward the city center...
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BAGHDAD -- A female suicide bomber blew herself up at the main pet market in central Baghdad, killing at least 46 people and wounding dozens in the deadliest bombing to strike the capital since 30,000 more American troops began flooding into central Iraq last spring, police said.
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BAGHDAD - A wave of bombings and shootings swept Iraq yesterday, killing at least 50 people amid a promised new offensive by Al Qaeda. The US military acknowledged that violence was on the upswing and blamed it on the terror movement.
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A U.S. military plane with three U.S. senators and a U.S. House member onboard came under rocket fire while leaving Baghdad, Iraq, for Amman, Jordan, Thursday night and had to take evasive maneuvers.
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Baghdad - Five people were killed and 46 wounded, including women and children, in US airstrikes on the Baghdad stronghold of radical Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr early on Monday.
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The U.S. military said its forces killed an estimated 49 militants during a dawn raid to capture an Iranian-linked militia chief in Baghdad's Sadr City enclave, one of the highest tolls for a single operation since President Bush declared an end to active combat in 2003.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - The United States launched new airstrikes on the Sunni insurgent stronghold of Fallujah and nearby villages Friday, and Iraqi officials said 44 people were dead, including women and children.    In Baghdad, a suicide attacker detonated a car packed with explosives as a police convoy drove by, killing at least five people, officials said...
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BAGHDAD -- Bombings and mortar attacks killed dozens across Baghdad yesterday as Iraqi troops set up new checkpoints and an Iraqi general took command -- indications that the much-awaited operation to restore peace to the capital is gearing up nearly a month after it was announced.
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BAGHDAD, July 12 -- U.S. soldiers in eastern Baghdad clashed with Shiite militiamen on Thursday, leaving at least 11 Iraqis dead and an unknown number injured, including two children hit by shrapnel from a U.S. helicopter attack, according to American soldiers who took part in the mission.
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A rocket caused the blast that killed dozens of Americans. It happened at a military base in the Iraqi city of Mosul. Hundreds of troops were at lunch in a mess tent when the rocket hit.
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BAGHDAD -- Militants fired rockets at a hotel housing foreigners in the heart of Baghdad last night, causing minor damage, while US 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 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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at least 47 people in the deadliest single attack in the Iraqi capital in six months. responsibility for Tuesday&#39;s blast, which it said was carried out by a suicide attacker.
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Car bombs and a rocket barrage struck a predominantly Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad Sunday, killing at least 47 people and wounding 148. The rockets apparently were fired from a mostly Sunni district targeted by U.S. troops in a crackdown against the sectarian violence roiling the capital.
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Militants fired rockets at a hotel housing foreigners in the heart of Baghdad on Thursday night, causing minor damage, while US officials said two American soldiers were killed by roadside bombs outside the capital and authorities arrested 20 Iraqis
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At least 46 people were killed and 137 injured by blasts in Baghdad, Iraqi and US officials said. Most of the casualties occurred in three coordinated car bombings.