Iraqi Police Fire Warning Shots Near Kufa
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi police fired warning shots and barred vehicle traffic leading to Kufa on Friday, fearing an outbreak of violence as hundreds of worshippers descended on the holy city for the first weekly prayers since radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr relinquished control of its revered shrine under a peace deal.    Separately, France said it had received word that two French reporters held captive in Iraq were alive while one of their employers claimed the kidnappers had handed them over to an Iraqi opposition group, raising hopes that the hostages could soon be released...
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KIRKUK, Iraq  - A suicide bomber detonated his  vehicle near a police academy in the city of Kirkuk on  Saturday, killing at least 17 people and wounding 36, police  said, in the latest attack on Iraqi security forces.
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KIRKUK, Iraq  - Thousands of Iraqi police and soldiers launched a major security crackdown in the restive Iraqi oil city of Kirkuk on Saturday, searching homes for weapons after all residents were ordered off the streets.
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KIRKUK, Iraq  - Three suicide car bomb attacks on  Iraqi police and troops in a town near Kirkuk killed at least  nine people Wednesday, police said, in the latest insurgent  strikes on security forces ahead of Sunday's election.
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Iraqi police have said the drive-by shooting that killed Hatem Karim occurred in the southern Dora district of the Iraqi capital. The killing is the latest in a series of attacks targeting officials linked to Iraq&#39;s US-backed interim government.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Insurgents attacked a police station this morning in northwestern Baghdad with rocket-propelled grenades and small arms fire, witnesses said.
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INSURGENTS in Iraq are continuing to pursue their deadly campaign against US troops and Iraqi security forces. Suicide car bombers struck Iraqi police and Kurdish militiamen in
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Iraq&#39;s interim government has announced that a night time curfew will be imposed on Baghdad and surrounding areas until further notice amid escalating violence in the country.
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At least 10 Iraqi policemen were killed  in a gun battle with insurgents south of Baghdad on Thursday,  police sources said.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi has given the go-ahead for a US-led attack on the rebel stronghold of Falluja. Allawi announced a curfew in Falluja and Ramadi from 1800 local time
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A vehicle blows up at a police post in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, reports say.
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KIRKUK, Iraq  - A suicide bomber detonated his  vehicle near a police academy in the city of Kirkuk on  Saturday, killing at least 17 people and wounding 20, police  said, in the latest attack on Iraqi security forces.
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KIRKUK, Iraq  - Thousands of Iraqi police and soldiers swept through the restive Iraqi oil city of Kirkuk on Saturday, searching homes for weapons and insurgents after all residents were ordered off the streets.
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At least 17 Kurdish militiamen have been killed in a suicide bomb attack in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. The bombing came hours after two car bomb explosions in the capital, Baghdad, killed at least four policemen and wounded 49 others.
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Dozens of Iraqi policemen and soldiers were killed yesterday as insurgents launched a wave of attacks on police stations and checkpoints north of Baghdad in territory dominated by supporters of Saddam Hussein.
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A series of explosions thundered in the Iraqi capital Saturday morning, police said, including one from a mortar round that hit the U.S.-controlled Green Zone.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Supporters of rebel Iraqi cleric  Moqtada al-Sadr were fired on as they marched from the town of  Kufa to the city of Najaf on Thursday and several were wounded,  witnesses at the scene said.