THREE bombs exploded at a neighbourhood celebration in western Baghdad yesterday, killing 35 children and seven adults, officials said.

Multiple explosions rocked a Baghdad district as a US military convoy was passing today, killing at least 37 people and wounding more than 50.

A suicide attacker exploded a car bomb as a US military convoy drove down a Baghdad street today. Police said at least 16 people had been killed.

US military officials and representatives of rebel Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr held talks today aimed at reducing violence in the restive Baghdad slum of Sadr City, a day after clashes there killed 10 people, officials said.