Bomb blasts mar Iraq Army Day holiday
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A suicide bomber killed nine people when he blew himself up near a ceremony marking Iraq's national Army Day holiday in central Baghdad on Sunday, the latest in an upsurge of suicide attacks.
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A suicide bomber wearing an explosives vest killed eight people, including at least four Iraqi soldiers, during celebrations to mark Army Day in the eastern Baghdad suburb of Karrada on Sunday, police said.
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A suicide bomber killed a dozen people, most of them police officers, in the Iraqi provincial capital of Ramadi yesterday, while 50 miles away in Baghdad two American soldiers were killed and three wounded when their convoy struck a roadside bomb.
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A suicide attacker detonated a car bomb yesterday outside the Iraqi police academy in the northern city of Kirkuk, as hundreds of trainees and civilians were leaving for the day, killing at least 17 people.
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The anniversary of Saddam Hussein&#39;s capture was marked with a day of violence when a suicide car bomber struck in Baghdad yesterday killing at least 13 people.
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A series of car bomb blasts tore  through Baghdad and the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Monday,  killing at least 26 people and wounding more than 100.
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Bombings struck four coalition and Iraqi military convoys and a provincial government office Monday, killing at least eight people, including an American soldier and an Estonian trooper in the Baghdad area.
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Two bomb blasts shook separate areas of  central Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 10 people and  wounding 70, while U.S. and Iraqi forces pursued their  offensive against rebel strongholds elsewhere in the country.
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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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BAGHDAD, Dec 13  - Bomb blasts killed at least 23 people in Iraq on Wednesday, including seven Iraqi soldiers, in a day of apparently sectarian violence that overshadowed preparations for a conference intended to promote national reconciliation.
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Two roadside bombs planted near a gas station in Baghdad's southeastern Amin neighborhood detonated in quick succession Wednesday morning, killing at least four people and wounding seven others, according to officials.    One police officer was killed in the blasts and three other officers were wounded, according to an official with Iraq's Interior Ministry said.
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As children approach American troops giving away candy at a celebration, three bombs go off in succession. By wire services. BAGHDAD - The last day of the worst month of car bombings in Iraq targeted the most vulnerable and proved the most horrifying.
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At least 12 people were killed and 38 wounded when a bomb exploded outside an Iraqi army recruitment center in Hilla on Wednesday morning, police 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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A series of car bomb blasts tore  through Baghdad and the northern Iraq city of Mosul on Monday,  killing at least 26 people and wounding more than 100.
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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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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.