Gunmen kidnapped the head of Iraq’s Olympic committee and at least 30 employees today after storming a meeting of sports officials just days after the coach of Iraq’s national wrestling team was killed.

Gunmen in Baghdad intercepted a minivan apparently carrying a coffin to the Shiite holy city of Najaf today, killing all 10 people on board.

A Shiite legislator escaped an assassination attempt today after a roadside bomb missed his convoy in downtown Baghdad, a day after the kidnapping of a Sunni legislator.

A parked car bomb struck a popular outdoor market today in the Shiite slum of Sadr City in Baghdad, killing at least 66 people and wounding dozens, authorities said.

Scores of workers were abducted today as they left work at an industrial plant north of Baghdad, police said.

A parked car bomb struck a Shiite slum in Baghdad today, killing at least two people and wounding three.

Gunmen seized 10 workers from a bakery today in a predominantly Shiite neighbourhood in Baghdad, while a car bomb in the northern city of Mosul killed one woman and wounded 19 other people, police said.

The death toll in a Baghdad suicide bombing at a mosque during Friday prayers has risen to 10.

A suicide bomber has struck a Shiite mosque during Friday prayers in Baghdad, killing at least seven people and wounding 18.

A suicide bomber has struck a Shiite mosque during Friday prayers in Baghdad, killing at least seven people and wounding 18, as violence persisted despite a driving ban and increased security measures aimed at restoring order in the Iraqi capital.

Two bombs aimed at police patrols exploded today in Baghdad as a series of attacks killed at least 24 people nationwide, while insurgent groups offered condolences for the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and warned they would continue his campaign of violence.

A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol exploded in an outdoor market in Baghdad today, killing four people and wounding 27, police said.

A rash of bombings in Baghdad killed at least 30 people and injured dozens, police said.

Police and soldiers responding to a report of killings today found 30 bodies, most beheaded, near a village north of Baghdad.

The bodies of 31 men were found dumped at eight sites in Iraq, most of them in predominantly Shiite parts of Baghdad, police said today.

A car bomb exploded outside a Sunni Muslim mosque in south-western Baghdad today, killing at least four Iraqis and wounding 21.

A suicide car bomber and a mortar killed six people and injured 23 people in two separate attacks today in Baghdad.

Two car bombs killed ten civilians today in a blast at a petrol station in central Iraq and another one targeting a two-car convoy carrying foreigners through central Baghdad, police said.

A roadside bomb killed three Iraqi soldiers in north-east Iraq today, and six people were wounded in attacks by insurgents on four of Baghdad’s 1,200polling stations during the country’s constitutional referendum, police said.

Roadside bombs killed two American soldiers in northern Baghdad and ignited a train carrying fuel in the south of Iraq’s capital, killing two Iraqis and wounding six others, officials said today.

A suicide bomber wearing a vest laden with explosives blew himself up today inside a popular Baghdad kebab restaurant, killing at least eight people, police said.