Gunmen in Iraq sprayed a car with bullets, killing a bride and wounding the groom as they drove home on their first day as husband and wife.

A suicide attacker wearing an explosives belt detonated himself today outside an army recruiting centre in Baghdad, killing at least 10 people, police and army officials said.

Suicide bombers struck Iraq today, killing at least 28 and wounding dozens more in three attacks on an army recruiting centre, a police convoy and civilians, authorities said.

A suicide bomber targeting American forces exploded his vehicle near the heavily guarded main checkpoint to Baghdad International Airport today, Iraqi police said.

A car bomb exploded outside a Shiite mosque in Baghdad killing at least 14 people and wounding 40 today in the latest violence in the lead-up to next weekend’s elections.

A SUICIDE car bomber linked to al-Qaida killed 13 people in Baghdad yesterday as seven US Marines were also killed on the first anniversary of the capture of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.

Thirteen people died and 15 were injured in a suicide attack at an entrance to the Green Zone in Baghdad that houses Iraq’s interim government and foreign embassies, a hospital official said.

CAR bomb attacks killed at least 21 people and wounded 96 in the Iraqi capital Baghdad yesterday.

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.