Rockets Hit Hotel in Baghdad; Shiite Rebel Offers Truce Deal
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Insurgents fired two rockets into the Ishtar Sheraton Hotel in central Baghdad tonight, setting rooms ablaze and forcing the temporary evacuation of scores of journalists
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A rocket hit a busy Baghdad area today killing at least one person and wounding eight, hospital officials and witnesses said. The rocket exploded on a side street in Baghdadâs Karrada neighbourhood.
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Rockets slammed into an Iraqi housing complex near the Baghdad international airport and a nearby U.S. military base on Monday, killing at least five people and wounding 16, including two U.S. soldiers, officials said.
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A rocket attack aimed at a passing US convoy on a commercial street in northern Baghdad killed four Iraqis and wounded 14 others Friday, the US military and Iraqi security forces said.
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BAGHDAD: Iraq was steeped in blood Tuesday as a fledgling truce in a Baghdad rebel bastion was shattered by fresh fighting that officials said left 40 killed and scores wounded, while the US death count neared the 1,000 mark.
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Two American soldiers were killed Saturday in Baghdad, seven Shiite construction workers were gunned down and five Sunni civilians were blown up, deepening the capital's security crisis. Shiite politicians called on the prime minister to cancel his visit to Washington to protest Israel's attacks in Lebanon.
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A bomb planted in a mini van detonated Sunday outside a hotel in downtown Baghdad, killing at least six people and injuring 16, police and witnesses said.
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At least two rockets were fired toward  the Sheraton and Palestine hotels in central Baghdad on  Thursday and a fire broke out in the area, witnesses said.
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A firefight broke out between U.S. troops and militants today in Baghdad's Sadr City as coalition forces targeted a man they said was a leader in an Iranian-funded kidnapping operation. At least 13 people were killed and 60 others were reported wounded in the densely populated Shiite slum where there is strong support for Iran and anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.
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Explosions and gunfire erupted outside hotels housing foreigners and journalists in the centre of Baghdad tonight, but there were no immediate reports of casualties.
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BAGHDAD Two rockets hit a central Baghdad hotel housing foreigners and journalists on Thursday and gunfire erupted in the neighborhood, which is across the Tigris River from the US Embassy compound.
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A rocket exploded near the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad while five members of the U.S. House were in the facility Sunday, a member of the delegation said.
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By John Reed and Ben Hall in Baghdad and Peter Spiegel in London. Insurgents struck a US military base near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul with a rocket yesterday, killing at least 24 and wounding about 60
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - 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 left at least 25 people dead in the city as security appeared to spiral out of control.    Many of the dead were killed when a U.S...
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A rocket has landed in a busy street in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, killing at least one person. Witnesses say the rocket hit a side street in the Karrada neighborhood, a busy shopping area in the heart of the city.
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Two blasts, one near a hospital and the other near a hotel, killed one person and wounded five in Baghdad on Saturday, witnesses and hospital officials said.
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A barrage of mortar fire Thursday ended a brief period of relative calm in Baghdad, killing at least one civilian and wounding more than a dozen, while insurgents continued