Violence flares in northern Iraq
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At least nine people are killed by a suicide car bombing in Kirkuk , while clashes kill others in Mosul.
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At least 25 people are killed in two separate attacks north of Baghdad targeting the Iraqi police force.
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Six weeks before Iraq's nationwide vote, another blast of violence hit the country Sunday, including two deadly bombings that claimed dozens of lives and an ambush that killed three employees of Iraq's electoral commission.
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Iraqi officials say at least 12 people were killed and 16 wounded in more incidents of violence across the country Wednesday. They say 10 people were killed and six wounded in an exchange of gunfire between
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FALLUJA (Aljazeera) -- Dozens of Iraqis have been killed and scores wounded in attacks on Sunday in northern Iraq and Baghdad. The spokesman said the three died when their police car blew up in raids against
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Clashes broke out between insurgents and Iraqi security forces in northern Baghdad on Friday, a police source said.
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Iraqi officials say insurgents fired mortars at an Iraqi National Guard headquarters in al-Mushahida,) north of Baghdad Tuesday. News reports say there were heavy casualties, but no figure was immediately available.
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Violence surged through central and northern Iraq on Saturday as a tenacious insurgency led by Sunni Arabs kept up relentless assaults in a string of major cities, from Ramadi to Falluja to Baghdad.
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The U.S. commander for northern Iraq called for reinforcements yesterday, citing a rise in sectarian attacks and other violence in his region as Iraqi and American forces focus on securing Baghdad.
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Insurgents attacked two oil pipelines in northern Iraq on Tuesday, halting oil exports from there to Turkey and forcing a power station to be shut down, police and officials said.
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BAGHDAD -- Insurgents plowed a car bomb into a bus carrying Kurdish militiamen in northern Iraq yesterday, while Sunni and Shi'ite militias fought a pitched battle south of Baghdad. The day's violence, which killed dozens, underscored the continuing rise in ethnic and sectarian tensions as Iraq heads toward nationwide elections in January.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Firefighters fought a massive oil pipeline fire in northern Iraq on Friday, after insurgents detonated explosives on a northern line in what authorities described as one of the worst of the recent sabotage attacks in the region.    The explosion Thursday on the line extending from fields southwest of Kirkuk to the oil refinery in Beiji set off a fire that pumped balls of fire and black smoke over the area...
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Some events and scattered violence across Iraq on Wednesday:
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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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A suicide car bomber blasted a US convoy north of Baghdad and US troops battled insurgents west of the capital Wednesday as a wave of violence across Iraq&#39;s Sunni Muslim heartland killed at least 27 people.
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The US military says it has attacked  suspected rebel targets in Mosul after an upsurge in violence in the northern Iraqi city.
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Baghdad, Sept. 5 (NNN): Amid a spate of fresh violence in the war-torn country, a suicide car bomb attack in northern Iraq has left at least 17 people dead and more than 20 wounded, while 27 others were killed in separate incidents of violence.