Iraqi Cabinet minister accused of killings
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Authorities in Iraq on Tuesday raided the home of the country's Sunni culture minister, whom they accused of killing two people during an assassination attempt two years ago.
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A suicide car bomb attack targeting Iraq&#39;s environment minister killed four of her bodyguards, while a separate blast near the education minister&#39;s convoy killed one bodyguard, police and government officials said.
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BAGHDAD -- An arrest warrant was issued against Iraq's Sunni culture minister, and police raided his home on Tuesday after he was accused of ordering a 2005 assassination attempt against a secular Sunni politician that killed his two sons, officials said.
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Iraq's Shi'ite vice president and a cabinet minister were wounded in an apparent assassination attempt on Monday when a bomb killed six people at a ministry in Baghdad where they were attending an official ceremony.
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He says the deputy governor (Hatim Kamil) was on his way to work Monday when he was assassinated in a drive-by shooting. Another Iraqi official says two of the man&#39;s bodyguards were wounded in the attack.
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Officials said the Sunni minister is wanted in connection with an assassination attempt more than two years ago.
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Insurgents targeted the convoys of Iraq&#39;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.
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Iraq's health minister, who is aligned to a powerful Shiite militia, claimed Sunday that U.S. forces arrested seven of his personal guards in a surprise pre-dawn raid on his office. The reason for the alleged arrests was unclear.
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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 -- Bombs, mortar rounds, and shootings left more than 40 Iraqis dead yesterday as Iraqi politicians met to discuss a possible Cabinet shake-up in an attempt to improve the government's track record on stemming violence.
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A Sri Lankan government minister was killed in a powerful roadside bomb attack by suspected Tamil Tiger rebels, followed hours later by a powerful blast in the heart of the capital Colombo, police said.
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Iraq's vice president on Monday accused Israel of carrying out "massacres" in Lebanon, the strongest criticism yet of the Jewish state by a top official of the U.S-backed Iraqi government.
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Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki lashed out on Sunday at U.S. Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton who had called for him to be replaced and criticized the U.S. military for killing civilians.
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A senior official in Iraq's Communications Ministry was shot dead as he was driving to work in Baghdad on Thursday, a source at the ministry said.
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BAGHDAD (BBC)-- Two Iraqi interim government ministers have survived apparent assassination attempts in the capital Baghdad. Convoys carrying the environment and education ministers were attacked on their way to offices in the city.
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A suicide car bomb attack targeting Iraq&#39;s environment minister killed four of her bodyguards on Tuesday, while a separate blast near the education minister&#39;s convoy killed one bodyguard, police and government officials said.
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The Deputy Governor of Baghdad has been killed in a gun attack carried out by militants in the capital. Hatem Karim was targeted in a drive-by shooting in the southern Dora district of the city.