A bomb blast today at Baghdad’s largest and oldest wholesale market district killed at least 24 people and injured 35.

A car bomb in the mixed neighbourhood of al-Mashtal in eastern Baghdad killed two civilian pedestrians and injured five others today.

A parked car rigged with a bomb exploded today in Baghdad’s eastern neighbourhood of Rashad, killing two civilian pedestrians and injuring five others.

Iraq’s prime minister sharply criticised a US-Iraqi attack on a Shiite militia stronghold in Baghdad, exposing a rift with his American partners on security tactics, as 24 people were killed today in a series of bombings and shooting.

A series of bomb explosions in Baghdad today killed at least 20 people and injured 58, while armed robbers shot dead three people during a raid on a bank, police said.

Two dozen people have died in a surge of violence in northern Iraq, including 10 at a football game hit by a suicide car bombing, police said, while the country’s spiralling sectarian and political bloodshed killed at least 19 others elsewhere.

At least 19 people, including four soldiers, were killed in a suicide bombing today, as gunmen in military fatigues kidnapped 29 people, the latest victims of the violence and lawlessness sweeping Iraq, police said.

Two brothers serving in Iraq’s police forces were killed today when a roadside bomb struck their vehicle as they returned home in southeastern Baghdad, police said.

A series of explosions rocked Baghdad today, killing at least two people and injuring 10.

A bomb attack on a vegetable market in a predominantly Shiite neighbourhood in south-eastern Baghdad today killed at least eight people and wounded 14.