A suicide car bomber struck an Iraqi military base in northern Iraq today in the deadliest of a series of attacks that killed at least 42 people nationwide.

Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad flew out from Iraq at the end of his ground-breaking visit today with a final volley of taunts at the West’s presence there.

Three parked cars exploded within 30 minutes in a predominantly Shiite area in Baghdad today, killing at least 12 people, police said, the deadliest in a series of bombings and shooting attacks nationwide.

A suspected suicide bomber blew himself up in the Iraqi parliament cafeteria in an assault in the heart of the heavily fortified, US-protected Green Zone today, killing at least eight people including three politicians, the American military said.

A defence lawyer in Saddam Hussein’s genocide trial in Baghdad today demanded that the court investigate the alleged ransacking of the defence team’s office in the US-controlled Green Zone.

Saddam Hussein’s chief lawyer warned today of worsening violence in Iraq and chaos through the Middle East if the ex-president was sentenced to death in his trial on charges of crimes against humanity because of an anti-Shiite crackdown in the 1980s.

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A bomb exploded today in a crowd of day labourers in central Baghdad, killing eight people and wounding 28, police said.

Saddam Hussein appeared in court in Baghdad today for the first time since his hunger strike and hospital stay.

A BOMB hidden in a minibus exploded near the offices of anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in eastern Baghdad yesterday, killing two Iraqi civilians and wounding three, police said.

A BOMB hidden in a minibus exploded near the offices of anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in eastern Baghdad yesterday, killing two Iraqi civilians and wounding three, police said.

The feared resumption of mass sectarian violence erupted in a Baghdad Shiite slum when bombers blew apart two markets, killing at least 44 people and wounding about 200.

Saddam Hussein today appeared in a special Green Zone courtroom for resumption of his trial as the sound of mortar fire echoed through the centre of the Iraqi capital.

Two mortar rounds exploded today in Baghdad’s highly-fortified Green Zone, where Iraq’s parliament and the US Embassy are based, police said.

Insurgents gunned down a neighbourhood police chief and set off a suicide bomb near a patrol guarding a holy shrine, part of a series of attacks today targeting Iraqi security forces and leaving at least eight people dead, including four police officers.

All 26 Nato nations decided they will work together to help train Iraq’s military today – a decision designed to symbolise the end to the bitter divisions wrought by the Iraq war.

LEADING Iraqi political parties called yesterday for elections scheduled for January 30 to be delayed because of Iraq’s widening violence.

AT least 32 people were killed in attacks in Iraq yesterday, including bombings inside Baghdad’s heavily-fortified Green Zone said to have been claimed by the suspected al-Qaida chief in the country, Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi.

The terrorists who beheaded British hostage Ken Bigley claimed responsibility today for daring suicide attacks inside Baghdad’s heavily guarded Green Zone that killed five people, including three American civilians.

A car bomb exploded near an entrance to Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone that is home to the US embassy and Iraqi government buildings today, killing at least 15 people and wounding 81.

At least four strong explosions shook the heart of the Iraqi capital tonight, hours after the US-run coalition transferred sovereignty to the interim Iraqi government.

Explosions rocked the centre of Baghdad today and smoke could be seen rising from the area of the US-controlled Green Zone.

Thunderous explosions rocked central Baghdad today, but the cause was unknown.

An explosion was heard today around the headquarters of the US-led coalition in Baghdad. Sirens wailed briefly, and smoke rose from the area.