Extremists unleashed a thunderous barrage of mortars or rockets today against the Baghdad Green Zone, killing at least three people and wounding 18, the US Embassy said.

Two Iraqi politicians were killed today when a bomb rocked the parliament building in the heavily-fortified Baghdad Green Zone.

Many people were wounded when a bomb rocked Iraq’s parliament building in the heavily fortified Baghdad Green Zone today.

Gunmen today kidnapped 20 employees of a Iraqi government agency that cares for Sunni mosques and shrines nationwide, and the organisation suspended its work until further notice, an official said.

A third car bomb exploded later today at a US-manned checkpoint to the Baghdad Green Zone, the heavily-fortified area that houses the US embassy and Iraqi government offices.