Blasts rock Baghdad before reconciliation talks
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Bomb blasts killed 15 people in Baghdad on Wednesday and suicide bombers attacked an Iraqi army base, overshadowing preparations for a conference intended to promote national reconciliation.
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A loud explosion rocked central Baghdad on Thursday, sending column of smoke rising above the protected Green Zone, witnesses said.
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Strong explosions shook central Baghdad  at dawn Sunday and heavy fighting erupted in a street notorious  as a rebel stronghold, in violence that killed at least 22  Iraqis, the U.S. army and witnesses said.
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Two blasts killed up to 18 people,  including an American soldier, in Baghdad Sunday hours before  Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld visited Iraq to gauge efforts  to calm violence ahead of January elections.
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Large explosions shook the center of Iraq's capital late Saturday, only hours after a bomb detonated near a U.S. consular office in southern Iraq, killing one person and wounding another.
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Two explosions rocked Baghdad's fortified Green Zone compound, which houses government offices and the U.S. embassy.
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More than a dozen explosions shook  central Baghdad at dawn on Sunday and thick plumes of smoke  rose above the Green Zone compound housing Iraq's interim  government and assembly and the U.S. and other embassies.
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Two bombs explode in busy markets in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, killing at least 35 people, police say.
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Iraq&#39;s interim Prime Minister IyadAllawi on Sunday said the peace talks on Fallujah was near the endwith a gloomy hope for peaceful settlement, while an explosion in Tikrit
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Loud explosions echoed through the Iraqi capital Tuesday morning as a number of mortar rounds landed near government offices, the Interior Ministry and witnesses said. There was no immediate word on casualties.
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A powerful blast shook central Baghdad  on Saturday and a thick column of black smoke rose from near  the Green Zone complex housing the interim Iraqi government and  embassies, witnesses said.
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The blasts come hours before Prime Minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, is expected to address the nation over the deaths of Muslim protesters.
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Two bomb blasts shook separate areas of  central Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 10 people and  wounding 70, while U.S. and Iraqi forces pursued their  offensive against rebel strongholds elsewhere in the country.
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Strong explosions shook central Baghdad early Sunday, and fighting erupted on a major street in the heart of the city near the U.S.-guarded Green Zone.
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Two explosions went off in the Iraqi capital early Monday, Interior Ministry spokesman Col. Adnan Abdul-Rahman said.
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Explosions damaged churches and hit a  hospital and hotel in Baghdad on Saturday in fresh challenges  to Iraq's U.S.-backed interim government.
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Two blasts killed up to 18 people, including an American soldier, in Baghdad Sunday hours before Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld visited Iraq to gauge efforts to calm violence ahead of January elections.