Casualty Count

Five civilians were wounded when a suicide car bomber targeted a U.S. military patrol in the city of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

A woman wearing a suicide vest blew herself up near a popular market and a Shi'ite mosque in restive Diyala province north of the capital Wednesday, killing eight civilians and wounding seven others...The attack took place in Khan Bani Saad

Five school children were killed Tuesday after being struck by a car in the convoy of a top judicial official during a chaotic gunbattle with checkpoint guards, police and hospital officials said. The children, ages 6 to 10, were hit by the car...

Three Army soldiers who were gunned down during an intensive, three-hour firefight in the Salad ad Din province north of Baghdad last week, may have died from friendly fire, military officials said Tuesday.

Lance Cpl. Curtis A. Christensen Jr., 29, of Collingswood, N.J., died Jan. 11 from a non-hostile incident in Al Anbar province, Iraq. He was assigned to 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force...

Pfc. Keith E. Lloyd, 26, of Milwaukee, died Jan. 12 in Tal Afar, Iraq, of wounds suffered when his vehicle encountered an improvised explosive device. He was assigned to the 1st Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, Fort Hood, Texas.

Turkish warplanes have bombed Kurdish rebel positions in northern Iraq, the Turkish military has said. The jets struck targets in the Zap-Sivi, Avasin-Basyan and Kakurk areas, it said. There were no immediate reports of casualties or serious damage...

A double suicide bomb attacks targeted a police checkpoint in a town in Salahudin province on Tuesday, killing a policeman and wounding eight people, a provincial police source said.

Two roadside bombs wounded six people, including two policemen, in central Baghdad's Karrada district, police said.

The spokespersson for the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Jemini Pandya said Tuesday that food and non-food items are being distributed by IOM through its partners to more than 5,000 families in need of urgent humanitarian...

The president of Iraq's Kurdish region warned Monday that Kurdish leaders would resist any efforts to scrap plans for a referendum on the fate of the multiethnic city of Kirkuk. His tough comments came a day after nearly a dozen political parties...

The US military will hand over to Iraqi control the huge province of Anbar within three months, a senior officer said, reflecting a sharp turnaround for a region once a hotbed of insurgency.

A blast at an oil refinery in the Iraqi city of Basra triggered a fire which injured four people on Tuesday, an oil ministry official said, adding that the blaze was swiftly brought under control.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met Iraq's prime minister during a surprise visit here Tuesday, congratulating him on the passage of legislation reinstating former Saddam Hussein loyalists to government jobs and pushing for progress...

Police in Mosul found two unidentified dead bodies in two different places in Mosul city

Gunman shot dead a senior official in Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr office in Basra. He was killed at a Shi'ite religious ceremony in the town of Zubair, 20 km (12 miles) south of Basra, police said.

The same building complex had been cleared of explosives two weeks earlier, commanders say. But the ill-fated unit was apparently lured back to it by a villager who did not tell them that insurgents had sneaked back in later and rigged the house...

A day after the Iraqi Parliament passed legislation billed as the first significant political step forward in Iraq after months of deadlock, there were troubling questions — and troubling silences — about the measure’s actual effects.

U.S. and Iraqi forces have killed 60 militants, seized dozens of weapons caches and detained 193 suspects during the first week of a major offensive against al Qaeda in northern Iraq, the U.S. military said.

Turkey's government may seek an extension of its parliamentary mandate to attack Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq when the current authorization expires in October, Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday.