Bomb blasts mar Iraq Army Day holiday
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A suicide bomber blew himself up among soldiers and civilians celebrating Iraq's national Army Day holiday in central Baghdad on Sunday, killing 11 people in the latest in an upsurge of suicide attacks.
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A series of car bomb blasts tore  through Baghdad and the northern Iraq city of Mosul on Monday,  killing at least 21 people and wounding scores.
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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, 14 October 2004 - Six American soldiers were killed in roadside bombings, the US command said yesterday, as US and Iraqi troops stepped up pressure on insurgents before this weekâs start of the holy month of Ramadan.
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Two bomb blasts shook central Baghdad  on Monday, killing at least 14 people and wounding 90, while  U.S. and Iraqi forces pursued their offensive against rebel  strongholds elsewhere in the country.
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Explosions damaged churches in Baghdad on Saturday and the US military reported the deaths of four more American troops in bomb attacks elsewhere in Iraq.
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Blasts rocked five Christian churches in four Baghdad neighborhoods early Saturday -- as a string of violent incidents marred the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
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BAGHDADâSaturday began here with pre-dawn blasts at five empty Christian churches and ended with two US helicopters crashing over the city, killing two soldiers and wounding two others.
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Four people are reportedly killed by blasts in Baghdad and Kirkuk as Iraq sees more violence.
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BAGHDAD, Jan. 6 -- A suicide bomber detonated explosives in the middle of a raucous Iraqi Army Day celebration Sunday, killing at least five people including Iraqi soldiers who hurled themselves at the attacker to prevent further casualties, U.S. and Iraqi officials said.
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Car bombings in Iraq&#39;s capital Baghdad on Thursday have killed at least 45 people and injured more than 200 others. Attacks on US troops have risen around 80 a day.
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Two suicide car bombings Saturday killed at least 20 Iraqi police officers and National guardsmen. And, a mortar attack in central Baghdad killed at least two civilians.
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Three Iraqi soldiers threw themselves on a suicide attacker wearing an explosives vest at an Army Day celebration Sunday Â an act of heroism the U.S. said likely prevented many more deaths. Iraqi police said at least 11 people were killed in the blast, the deadliest in a series of bombings in Baghdad.
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Bomb attacks killed 59 people and wounded more than 120 across Iraq on Wednesday when suspected al Qaeda militants stepped up a campaign of violence coinciding with the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
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BAGHDAD, Jan. 30 -- A series of separate bomb and gun attacks killed dozens of Shiite worshippers in Iraq on Tuesday, a day after Iraqi and U.S. forces disrupted what they said was a major plot to target Shiite pilgrims and leaders as they mark the high point of their religious calendar.
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Two bomb blasts shook separate areas of central Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 10 people and wounding 70, while US and Iraqi forces pursued their offensive against rebel strongholds elsewhere in the country.
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Smoke rises from a spot where a car bomb exploded in Baghdad, Iraq, December 13. A suicide bomber killed 13 people in an attack Monday near to the heavily fortified Green Zone in central Baghdad.