US State Department motorcade attacked in Baghdad
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BAGHDAD - A US State Department motorcade came under attack in Baghdad yesterday, prompting security contractors guarding the convoy to open fire in the streets. At least nine civilians were killed, according to Iraqi officials.
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Guerrilla fighters attacked an Iraqi ministry in central Baghdad on Thursday with mortars and machineguns in one of the most dramatic shows of force by militant groups in the capital since the U.S. invasion in 2003.
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A US citizen is among four people reported to have been kidnapped at gunpoint from their office in Baghdad. &quot;They stormed the villa with automatic rifles and rocket-propelled grenades,&quot; a police source told the Reuters agency.
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A firefight broke out between U.S. troops and militants today in Baghdad's Sadr City as coalition forces targeted a man they said was a leader in an Iranian-funded kidnapping operation. At least 13 people were killed and 60 others were reported wounded in the densely populated Shiite slum where there is strong support for Iran and anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.
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WASHINGTON: Four US nationals and six Iraqis were killed in two attacks yesterday in the Green Zone in Baghdad. The four Americans killed were security staff with a private company, US State Department spokesman Richard Boucher 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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Rebels attacked the provincial governor&#39;s office in Iraq&#39;s third city of Mosul on Thursday, killing one of his bodyguards and wounding four more, the US military said.
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WASHINGTON - The State Department moved quickly yesterday to tamp down anger and possible repercussions after the alleged killing of eight Iraqi civilians by a private security firm hired to protect US diplomats in Iraq.
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An explosion kills four people in Baghdad, as US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld arrives in Iraq.
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A car bomb explodes at a US checkpoint in Baghdad -  a day after an almost identical attack there.
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A heavy gunfight broke out Monday on a dangerous street in central Baghdad within blocks of the countryâs most fortified facilities, including the US Embassy and interim Iraqi government headquarters.
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Insurgents seized four hostages, including one US resident, as they worked at their Baghdad office Monday, the BBC reported. Earlier Monday gunmen murdered Baghdad&#39;s deputy governor
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WASHINGTON: A US State Department official who worked with the Iraqi ministers of education and higher education was murdered in Baghdad by a group linked to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the group claimed on Thursday.
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The Deputy Governor of Baghdad has been killed in a gun attack carried out by militants in the capital. Hatem Karim was targeted in a drive-by shooting in the southern Dora district of the city.
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A car bomb targeting a US Military convoy exploded near the Australian Embassy in Baghdad on Monday, killing at least two people. Police at the scene said the morning explosion killed two Iraqi bystanders and injured several others.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. and Iraqi forces launched a major attack against the insurgent stronghold of Samarra early Friday, securing government and police buildings in the city, the U.S...
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US forces have killed at least 28 Iraqis after attacking groups attempting to drive out foreign troops and security forces loyal to Baghdad&#39;s Washington-imposed government in Tal Afar.