Gunmen attack Iraqi ministry in central Baghdad
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Guerrilla fighters attacked an Iraqi government ministry in central Baghdad on Thursday with mortars and machineguns in one of the most dramatic shows of force by militants in the capital since the U.S. invasion.
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BAGHDAD Insurgents drove a car bomb up to the Ministry of Education headquarters in northwestern Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least six people in a powerful blast and wounding dozens more, an Iraqi official said.
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Thirty people were killed and 48 more wounded when gunmen attacked a Sunni Arab neighborhood of Baghdad on Friday, burning mosques and homes, a source at police headquarters said.
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A suicide car bomber attacked a Baghdad  office used by a major Shi'ite party on Tuesday in the latest  insurgent attack aimed at stoking sectarian strife ahead of  Jan. 30 polls expected to be dominated by Shi'ites.
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Iraqi insurgents struck at the heart of Baghdad Thursday, firing two rockets at a major hotel used by foreign journalists and contractors and at least four mortars into
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Gunmen opened fire on a vehicle carryin Iraqi National Guard applicants in Baghdad on Saturday, killing six people, police said. The group had just left a national guard recruiting center
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At least 14 people were killed and 75 wounded in a car bomb attack in central Baghdad on Wednesday which interior ministry sources said targeted the convoy of Iraq's industry minister.
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Gunmen killed five Iraqi government guards outside the ministry of the interior in central Baghdad on Friday, police said.
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Gunmen opened fire on an Iraqi army checkpoint in central Baghdad Wednesday, killing eight soldiers and wounding two, police said
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The attack was the most serious breach of an Iraqi government building since November.
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Iraqi officials say assailants targeted the convoys of two Iraqi government ministers in separate attacks in Baghdad Tuesday. Neither official was hurt, but five other people were killed in the attacks.
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U.S. and Iraqi forces raided the Health Ministry building in central Baghdad on Thursday and arrested the deputy health minister, a ministry spokesman and witnesses said.
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Insurgents hammered central Baghdad on Sunday with one of their most intense mortar and rocket barrages ever in the heart of the capital, heralding a day of violence that killed nearly 60 people nationwide as security appeared to spiral out of control.
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Gunmen fired on a police car as it drove through a violent neighborhood of central Baghdad on Sunday, then dragged three passengers from the vehicle and shot them dead, witnesses said.
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A heavy gunfight broke out Monday on a dangerous street in central Baghdad within blocks of the country's most fortified facilities, including the U.S. Embassy and interim Iraqi government headquarters. Five more American troops were killed in the volatile Anbar province.
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Gunmen killed Baghdad's governor in  Iraq's highest-profile assassination in eight months and a  suicide bomber killed 11 people at a police checkpoint on  Tuesday in an escalating campaign to wreck the Jan. 30  election.
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Gunmen attacked a Sunni enclave in a mainly Shi'ite district in Baghdad on Friday, burning four mosques and homes, an Interior Ministry official said.