Gunmen kidnapped the deputy governor of Iraq’s Anbar province today in the latest assault on officials connected to the interim government, the Interior Ministry said.

US forces battled insurgents loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr throughout the Baghdad slum of Sadr City today. The Health Ministry said 33 people were killed and 193 injured in the Sadr clashes.

An explosion targeted the Baghdad governor’s convoy as he was travelling through the Iraqi capital today, killing two people but leaving him uninjured, the Interior Ministry said.

A car bomb exploded in the Iraqi capital as the Baghdad governor’s convoy was passing by, the Interior Ministry said.