Eight people were killed when a suicide bomber attacked a Shiite mosque north of Baghdad, Iraqi police and hospital officials said tonight.

The death toll from a suicide bombing north of Baghdad has risen to 26, an Iraqi health official said today.

A female suicide bomber blew herself up in Iraq today among police officers who were celebrating the release of a comrade from US custody, killing at least 22 people, Iraqi officials said.

Two suicide bombers struck a wedding convoy today in a crowded market district northeast of Baghdad as bystanders cheered it on, killing at least 35 people and wounding 65, officials said.

A suicide car bomber struck an Iraqi military base in northern Iraq today in the deadliest of a series of attacks that killed at least 42 people nationwide.

A parked car bomb struck an open-air market north-east of Baghdad today, killing at least 10 people and wounding more than two dozen, police said.

At least nine soldiers were killed today in a suicide car bomb attack on an Iraqi army checkpoint in northern Iraq.

At least nine people were killed and 16 wounded when a suicide bomber attacked a police station in Iraq today.

Six Sunni men who had received death threats for meeting local Shiites were killed today in execution-style killings, police said.

ACROSS Iraq, bombings and shootings killed at least 33 people yesterday.

Across Iraq, bombings and shootings killed at least 33 people today.

US forces seized hundreds of mortar rounds and rockets in a Sunni neighbourhood of Baghdad today, and detained two suspected terrorists.

A bomb struck a Sunni mosque in Baghdad after prayers today, killing seven people and wounding five, while mortars barraged a Shiite mosque north of the capital, leaving five wounded.

Gunmen attacked a minibus carrying Shiites north-east of Baghdad today, killing six men and wounding one woman, an official said. Elsewhere, at least 20 others were killed, many in drive-by shootings.

INSURGENTS fired rocket-propelled grenades at the home of an Iraqi police officer yesterday, killing his four children and his brother and wounding his wife.

Bomb blasts, shootings and rocket-propelled grenade attacks killed at least 13 people throughout Iraq, including a policeman’s four children, officials said today.

Insurgents launched roadside bomb blasts and rocket-propelled grenade attacks north of Baghdad early today, killing at least nine people, including a policeman’s four children.

Large demonstrations broke out across Iraq today to denounce parliamentary elections that protesters called rigged in favour of the main religious Shiite coalition.

A CARBOMB exploded outside a Shi’ite mosque north-east of Baghdad yesterday, killing at least 12 people and injuring dozens, a police official and witnesses said.

A car bomb exploded outside a Shiite mosque north-east of Baghdad today, killing 13 people and injuring more than 40, police said.

A radical cleric whose loyalists continued to battle US troops today vowed to continue fighting and said he would not to budge from the holy city of Najaf.