27 killed in Iraq violence
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BAGHDAD: A suicide car bomber blasted an American convoy north of Baghdad as US troops battled insurgents west of the capital yesterday in a wave of violence that killed at least 27 people.
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At least 30 people, including eight American soldiers have been killed in attacks and clashes in and around Baghdad. Hospital officials say 15 Iraqis were killed and 20 wounded during an exchange of gunfire at Haswah, 45 kilometres south of the capital.
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Some events and scattered violence across Iraq on Wednesday:
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Guerrillas shot dead 17 Iraqis working for the U.S. Army and killed a National Guard commander and three bodyguards in attacks north of Baghdad on Sunday that took the toll from three days of violence to more than 70.
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KUFA, Iraq - A mortar barrage slammed into a mosque filled with Iraqis preparing to march on the embattled city of Najaf, killing 27 people and wounding 63 Thursday, while the nation's top Shiite cleric headed to the area in a massive convoy hoping to end three weeks of fighting.    Hours later, unidentified gunmen opened fire from an Iraqi National Guard base on thousands of Shiite Muslim marchers heading to Najaf, killing at least three and wounding 46, witnesses said...
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Suicide bombers killed at least 27 people in attacks in two Iraqi cities Monday in the worst bloodshed since the country's historic election eight days ago.
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Insurgents launched a series of deadly attacks against Iraqi security forces Tuesday, killing at least 26 police officers and National Guardsmen
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In some of the worst violence in recent weeks in Baghdad, rebels launched attacks against Iraqi security forces in the capital today, killing at least 30 people.
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With car bombs, assassinations and raids on police stations, insurgents killed at least 25 people, including Iraqi policemen and a deputy governor, across the volatile Sunni Triangle on Tuesday, and a militant group claimed it executed eight Iraqi employees of an American security company.
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At least 27 Tamil Tiger rebels and soldiers have been killed in clashes in northern Sri Lanka, the defence ministry said.
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Bomb and mortar attacks killed at least   31 people in and near Baghdad on Saturday in violence that   showed no sign of easing despite a security crackdown against   al Qaeda in the capital.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - At least 27 people were killed and dozens wounded on Thursday when a suicide car bomber drove into a crowd of mourners at a funeral in Falluja, west of Baghdad, police said.
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In the deadliest insurgent violence in weeks, militants stormed two police stations and a mosque in Baghdad on Friday, killing 30 people. In the northern city of Mosul, 11 militants died in street battles with American and Iraqi forces.
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BAGHDAD: At least 110 people have been killed across Iraq in a sharp escalation of violence that saw gun battles, car bombs and bombardments rock the capital.
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A spate of car bombs and mortar attacks killed 70 people in Iraq, police and local officials said on Saturday, while the U.S. military reported eight of its soldiers killed in the past two days.
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Guerrillas have shot dead 17 Iraqis working for the US army and killed a National Guard commander and three bodyguards in attacks north of Baghdad that take the toll from three days of violence to more than 70.
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A suicide car bomber blasted an American convoy north of Baghdad and U.S. troops battled insurgents west of the capital Wednesday as a wave of violence across Iraq's Sunni Muslim heartland killed at least 27 people.