Two Iraqi Ministers Targeted in Separate Attacks
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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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Iraq&#39;s interim defense minister has lashed out at neighbors Iran and Syria, accusing them of aiding wanted terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and Saddam Hussein loyalists in Iraq.
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At least four people were killed in a rocket attack near the Iraqi Oil Ministry and two others were wounded in another suicide car bombing attack near the Iraqi Culture Ministry on Sunday, Iraqi police said.
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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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Somalia's trade minister and former defense minister escaped assassination attempts, but two others were killed in the latest Iraq-style guerrilla attacks on government targets, witnesses said on Wednesday.
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Iraq's prime minister announced Friday that the government was launching a major offensive against al-Qaeda in the northern city of Mosul after two deadly blasts that killed 34 people and a provincial police chief
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At least 14 people were killed and 75 wounded in a car bomb attack on the convoy of Iraq's industry minister on Wednesday, Interior Ministry sources said.
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Two aides to Iraq's top Shi'ite leader Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani have been killed in separate attacks apparently aimed at inflaming sectarian conflict ahead of Jan. 30 elections.
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Insurgents tried to assassinate 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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Two Iraqi journalists have been killed in separate incidents in Baghdad, police said Tuesday.
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A suicide car bomb attack targeting  Iraq's environment minister killed four of her bodyguards on  Tuesday, while a separate blast near the education minister's  convoy killed one bodyguard, police and government officials  said.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Car bombers struck twice in rapid succession in the capital Sunday, killing at least 11 people including an American soldier, as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld warned that violence may increase before the January election.    Iraq's most feared terror group - Tawhid and Jihad - claimed responsibility for the near-simultaneous car bombings, one near an east Baghdad police academy and the other outside an east Baghdad market as an American military convoy was passing by...
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Car bomb attacks brought more carnage  to the streets of two Iraqi cities on Monday, killing at least  26 people as the interim government struggles to stamp out an  insurgency ahead of elections scheduled for January.
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A senior member of the US-backed Iraqi government was assasinated in a drive-by shooting by insurgents today. Deputy Governor of Baghdad Hatem Karim
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A car bomb exploded in central Beirut today, wounding a former Lebanese Cabinet minister in an assassination attempt, top Lebanese and Syrian officials said.
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The blast in a Sunni area was unusual because such bombings â a staple of Sunni insurgents â are normally directed at Iraqi police or Shiite areas.
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KIRKUK, Iraq  - Gunmen killed three high-ranking  Iraqi police officers in two separate attacks on Saturday,  among a daily round of bombings and ambushes targeting U.S.  forces and their Iraqi allies.