Gunmen raid Iraq health ministry
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Gunmen attack the health ministry in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, sparking heavy gun battles with guards.
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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 a ceremony.
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Insurgents mounted fresh attacks in Baghdad today, killing a senior oil ministry official and an American soldier and kidnapping a Lebanese-American contractor.
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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.
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BAGHDAD - Gunmen ambushed the convoy of former Iraqi governing council president Ahmed Chalabi on Wednesday, wounding two of his bodyguards, aides said.
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Insurgents attacked a U.S. convoy and a government building near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, leaving at least four people dead, hospital workers said. Two Iraqi National Guard troops were also killed while trying to defuse a roadside bomb.
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At least 21 Iraqis were killed and 116 injured in attacks in Fallujah and Baghdad over the past 24 hours, the Health Ministry said by telephone from the Iraqi capital.
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U.S.-backed Iraqi forces stormed the Health Ministry and arrested the No. 2 official Thursday, accusing him of diverting millions of dollars to the biggest Shiite militia and allowing death squads use of ambulances and government hospitals to carry out kidnappings and killings.
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Attack was the first time insurgents had penetrated the heavily protected area that is the home of the Iraqi government and U.S. officials.
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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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The bombings followed a siege by Sunni Arab insurgents against the Shiite-run Health Ministry in the capitalÂs deadliest sectarian attack since the American-led invasion.
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Gunmen snatched three British citizens, believed to be civilians, from a house in central Baghdad early on Thursday, Iraq&#39;s Interior Ministry said.
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Gunmen attacked the convoy of Iraq's Shi'ite vice president, Adel Abdul Mahdi, in Baghdad on Thursday, but there were no injuries, Interior Ministry spokesman Brigadier Abdul Karim Khalaf said.
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Uniformed gunmen kidnapped people from computer stores in Baghdad on Monday as the prime minister, racing to avert civil war, presented a plan to halt sectarian violence by forming local committees and controlling the media.
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Iraqi troops backed by US Marines have seized Falluja&#39;s main hospital, the first step in what is expected to be a major push to retake the city from insurgents, hours after a 60-day state of emergency is imposed across most of the
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Three British nationals have been seized by gunmen in Baghdad, the Iraqi interior ministry says.
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Dozens of people, many of them women and children, were killed or wounded in attacks across Iraq Wednesday amid reports that more than 60 Iraqi policemen have been kidnapped.