Five people have been killed in an attack on the home of a government employee, Iraqi police said today.

Three schoolchildren were killed and a fourth injured in a roadside bombing north of Baghdad in Iraq’s Diyala province today, police said.

The vote winner in Iraq’s parliamentary elections said today he wanted to negotiate with all parties to form a government that can restore Iraq’s place in the Arab and Muslim world.

Three suicide bombings killed six people and wounded 20 others in the city of Baqouba today, just days before Iraqis head to the polls in key parliamentary elections.