Shi'ites storm Sunni area of Baghdad; 2 are killed
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BAGHDAD -- Gangs of roving Shi'ite Muslim gunmen stormed a west Baghdad neighborhood yesterday, burning houses and killing at least two people in broad daylight, authorities said.
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Explosions hit five churches in Baghdad, and two U.S. Army helicopters crashed elsewhere in the capital, killing two American soldiers and wounding two others, as violence flared while Iraqi Muslims began marking the holy month of Ramadan.
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BAGHDAD -- A bomb killed at least 37 Shi'ites in Baghdad yesterday as they stocked up on fuel for Ramadan, just days after the U S military warned that sectarian bloodshed could worsen during the Islamic holy month.
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Heavy fighting erupted on Sunday in a street in central Baghdad notorious as a guerrilla stronghold, and witnesses said at least five Iraqis were killed as U.S. helicopters attacked targets in the area.
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Two people have reportedly been killed and another two injured after a car bomb exploded in the Iraqi capital Baghdad. Meanwhile, fierce fighting has continued overnight in Najaf around the shrine used by rebels loyal to Shi&#39;ite cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr.
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Two car bombs tore through a busy shopping area of a mainly Shi'ite district of Baghdad on Sunday, killing 55 people and wounding scores as militants defied a military offensive by U.S. and Iraqi troops.
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Gunmen attacked a Sunni Arab enclave in a largely Shi'ite district of Baghdad on Friday in apparent retaliation for the bloodiest bombing in more than three years that killed 202 in a Shi'ite area on Thursday.
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Hundreds of Iraqi troops backed by U.S. forces stormed a Sunni Muslim mosque in Baghdad after Friday prayers, killing four people and wounding at least nine, witnesses and an influential group of Sunni clerics said.
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Gunmen killed nine members of two Shi'ite families in Baghdad Sunday a day after militias raided a mixed neighborhood and forced dozens of Sunni families to flee in a serious escalation of sectarian violence.
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U.S. troops raided a Shiite area of Baghdad on Thursday, capturing two militants believed linked to Iran and sparking a battle that Iraqi officials said killed 19 people. Two employees of the Reuters news agency were among the dead.
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Hundreds of Iraqi troops backed by U.S.  forces stormed a Sunni Muslim mosque in Baghdad after Friday  prayers, killing four people and wounding at least nine,  witnesses and an influential group of Sunni clerics said.
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Gunmen and bombers killed 30 people in Baghdad on Tuesday, including 14 Shi'ite religious workers after a powerful Iraqi Shi'ite leader urged President George Bush to strike harder at Sunni rebels to avert civil war.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq  - Strong explosions shook central  Baghdad at dawn on 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 car bombs tore through a packed shopping area of a mainly Shi'ite district of Baghdad on Sunday, killing 55 people in the worst attack since U.S. and Iraqi troops launched a crackdown in the city five days ago.
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Iraqi forces, backed by U.S. soldiers, stormed one of the major Sunni Muslim mosques in Baghdad after Friday prayers, opening fire and killing at least three people, witnesses said. Another raid overnight at a hospital allegedly used by insurgents in Mosul led to three arrests, the military said.
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Gunmen attacked a Sunni Arab district of Baghdad and burned mosques on Friday in apparent retaliation for the bloodiest bombing in more than three years of war that killed 202 in a Shi'ite area.
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Gunmen killed nine members of two Shi'ite families in Baghdad on Sunday a day after militias raided a mixed neighborhood and forced dozens of Sunni families to flee in a serious escalation of sectarian violence.