Iraqi Minister Escapes Assassination Attack
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A roadside bomb aimed at the Iraqi education ministerâs convoy exploded in western Baghdad today, killing one person and injuring two others, police said.
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BAGHDAD, Nov. 18 -- Gunmen killed a prominent Shiite politician Saturday in what police and others said appeared to have been a sectarian assassination.
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Iraq's Shiite vice president escaped an apparent assassination attempt Monday after a bomb exploded in municipal offices where he was making a speech
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A woman pulled a pistol on Iraq's defense minister in his office but then broke down in tears in a failed assassination plot hatched by an Iraqi group in Syria, the minister said in comments published on Saturday. Hazim al-Shaalan told the pan-Arab al-Hayat newspaper the 40-year-old woman had drawn the gun, loaded with poisoned bullets, during a meeting with him and other officials more than one week ago.
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A blast inside an Iraqi ministry during a ceremony attended by Vice President Adel Abdul-Mahdi killed six people on Monday but the Shi'ite vice president and other senior officials were unhurt, witnesses and police said.
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U.S. forces battled insurgents loyal to Moktada al-Sadr and Baghdad's governor narrowly escaped an assassination attempt.
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A suicide car bomb attack targeting  Iraq's environment minister killed four of her bodyguards on  Tuesday, while a separate blast near the education minister's  convoy killed one bodyguard, police and government officials  said.
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BAGHDAD (BBC)-- Two Iraqi interim government ministers have survived apparent assassination attempts in the capital Baghdad. Convoys carrying the environment and education ministers were attacked on their way to offices in the city.
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Prime minister unharmed in coordinated assassination attempt but president in critical condition
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Iraq's Shi'ite vice president and a cabinet minister were wounded in an apparent assassination attempt on Monday when a bomb killed six people at a ministry in Baghdad where they were attending a ceremony.
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BEIRUT, Lebanon A former Lebanese Cabinet minister has been wounded and his driver killed in an early morning car bombing in Beirut.
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A car bomb exploded in central Beirut today, wounding a former Lebanese Cabinet minister in an assassination attempt, top Lebanese and Syrian officials said.
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A suicide car bomb attack targeting Iraq&#39;s environment minister killed four of her bodyguards, while a separate blast near the education minister&#39;s convoy killed one bodyguard, police and government officials said.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen opened fire Wednesday on a convoy carrying former Iraqi Governing Council member Ahmad Chalabi in an apparent assassination attempt that wounded two of his bodyguards, Chalabi's spokesman said.    Chalabi's convoy was attacked in southern Baghdad at about 7:30 a.m...
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A convoy carrying the Iraqi National Congress leader Ahmed Chalabi was ambushed yesterday by gunmen in an apparent assassination attempt that left two of his bodyguards wounded.
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BAGHDAD - Gunmen in Iraq shot and killed the deputy governor of Baghdad on Monday, said Iraqi officials. Hatem Karem was assassinated in a drive-by shooting, while two of his body guards were wounded in the attack.
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Baghdad, Nov. 1 (NNN): Gunmen on Monday assassinated the deputy governor of Baghdad Hatem Kamil Abdul Fatah and injured four of his bodyguards, in a drive-by shooting in the southern Dora district of the capital, an Interior Ministry spokesman here said.