Iraq Insurgents Kill 18 in String of Attacks
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TIKRIT, Iraq  - A suicide car bomber killed seven  policemen in Saddam Hussein's home town and gunmen shot dead  eight people in a minibus south of Baghdad Tuesday in the  latest attacks to threaten Iraq's Jan. 30 election.
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Insurgent attacks killed eight Iraqi  soldiers on Saturday as guerrillas stayed on the offensive  after failing to scupper last week's historic election.
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_ Insurgents lured police to a house in west Baghdad with an anonymous tip about a rebel hideout, then set off explosives, killing at least 29 people and wounding 18 in the latest in a series of deadly strikes against Iraqi security
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Suspected al Qaeda militants are stepping up attacks in Iraq, the U.S. military said on Wednesday, as a spate of bombings in the north of the country killed 21 people and wounded dozens.
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Iraqi insurgents staged nearly simultaneous attacks Friday morning on police stations at opposite ends of Baghdad, killing at least 20 people, freeing dozens of prisoners and emptying a police arsenal in a demonstration of the militants' strength in the heart of the country.
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At least 43 people were killed as insurgents launched a string of attacks on Iraqi security forces and other targets on Tuesday, raising questions about landmark elections next month.
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Suicide bombers have killed 20 members of Iraq&#39;s fledgling security forces near a US marine base west of Baghdad and at a checkpoint to the north amid a spate of insurgent attacks across the country.
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A suicide bomber driving a small truck rigged with explosives blew up near a Baghdad college on Tuesday, killing 18 people in an attack that came just a day after bomb blasts destroyed two crowded city markets.
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Insurgents have killed 21 Iraqis and  two U.S. soldiers in recent assaults, showing there has been no  respite in the fight against U.S.-led forces and their allies  since Sunday's election.
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Suicide bombers killed 20 members of Iraq&#39;s fledgling security forces near a US marine base west of Baghdad and at a checkpoint to the north on Saturday amid a spate of insurgent attacks across the country.
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BAGHDAD -- US-led forces killed 20 suspected insurgents during a raid targeting fighters from the group Al Qaeda in Iraq northwest of Baghdad yesterday, the US military said. Two women were among those killed, the military said.
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Three separate bombings killed at least 16 people Sunday, and gunmen shot to death a Shiite tribal sheikh active in an effort to counter militias in his northeastern Baghdad neighborhood, Iraqi officials said.
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Guerrillas killed 20 people in attacks  in Iraq Tuesday, and Prime Minister Iyad Allawi acknowledged  what he called pockets of the country would be too unsafe for  voting in a Jan. 30 election.
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BAGHDAD, Dec. 8 -- U.S.-led forces killed 20 suspected insurgents during a raid targeting fighters from the group al-Qaeda in Iraq northwest of Baghdad on Friday morning, the U.S. military said. Two women were among those killed, the military said.
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The US military says 33 insurgents have been killed in a joint attack with Iraqi forces north of Baghdad.
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A suicide car bomber killed 18 people  near a hospital south of Baghdad on Saturday amid a surge of  violence by Iraq's mostly Sunni Muslim insurgents ahead of  Ashura, the holiest festival on the Shi'ite religious calendar.
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Insurgents killed 17 Iraqi police and  National Guards Monday in another bloody spree of ambushes,  bombings and suicide attacks aimed at wrecking Iraq's Jan. 30  national election.