A bomb has killed 26 people at a Sunni mosque in central Iraq, security officials say.

Insurgents in Iraq detonated a series of car bombs across Iraq today as co-ordinated attacks killed at least 55 people on the deadliest day in nearly a month.

A highly coordinated string of attacks have hit Iraq killing at least 36 and wounding more than 200.

A suicide bomber has blown himself up at a lunch hosted by a Sunni candidate in Iraq’s upcoming regional elections, killing 20 people, officials said.

A car bomb has killed two civilians and wounded four more in eastern Baghdad on the 10th anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq, the day after a series of co-ordinated attacks left scores dead, officials said.

Three bomb blasts shortly before sunset north of Baghdad have killed 10 people and wounded 31, Iraqi authorities said.

Militants have downed an Iraqi army helicopter and killed nearly a dozen security forces in overnight clashes in what appeared to be an al-Qaida surge to retake one of its former strongholds in Iraq.

Bombings and shootings around Iraq killed 22 people and wounded more than 50 today, authorities said.

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

A rapid series of attacks spread over a wide area of Iraq killed at least 55 people today, targeting mostly security forces in what appeared to be another strike by al-Qaida militants.

A rapid series of attacks spread over a wide area of Iraq killed at least 50 people today, targeting mostly security forces in what appeared to be another strike by al Qaida militants.

A swift series of bombings and shootings killed 35 people across the Iraqi capital early today in attacks that mostly appeared to target police, officials said.

Three Iraqi soldiers have been killed in a bomb blast north of Baghdad, an Iraqi official said today.

Four explosions struck Shiite neighbourhoods in Iraq’s capital Baghdad today, killing 13 people and injuring dozens.

A series of bombs targeting the homes of Iraqi police on has killed two children and wounded nine other people.

A child has been killed and nine other people injured in a series of bomb blasts targeting the homes of police officers, Iraqi officials said today.

Suspected members of al-Qaida attacked an Iraqi government compound today, detonating a suicide car bomb outside and then breaching the building’s perimeter.

Eight people have been killed in an attack on a government compound, an Iraqi army official said today.

Attackers set off two car bombs outside a government compound east of Baghdad today, then stormed the building and took hostages, Iraqi officials said.

Iraqi forces have stormed a settlement of Iranian exiles near the two nations’ border that prime minister Nouri al-Maliki has long sought to expel.

Ten soldiers were killed and 29 other people injured when a suicide bomber blew up his booby-trapped car outside an Iraqi army battalion headquarters in the country’s east today.

Two car bombs tore through car parks packed with Shia pilgrims today in an Iraqi holy city, pushing the death toll from a week of attacks to more than 170.

The death toll in a new spate of bombings on Shiite pilgrims in Iraq has risen to 56, officials said today.

At least 51 people died when a pair of car bombs blasted through security checkpoints ringing the Iraqi holy city of Karbala today.

An Iraqi has killed his 19-year-old daughter after discovering al-Qaida had recruited her as a suicide bomber, police say.

At least 22 people have been killed and more than 50 injured in a car bomb explosion in an open-air market north of Baghdad, Iraqi officials said today.

A series of explosions targeted voters across Baghdad killing at least 17 people today, heightening tension ahead of Sunday’s parliamentary elections.

SUICIDE bombers struck in quick succession yesterday in a former insurgent stronghold north-east of Baghdad, killing at least 32 people just days before a crucial election that will determine who will govern the country as American forces depart.

Three Iraqi suicide bombers killed at least 30 people in a series of co-ordinated attacks in the city of Baqouba today.

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.

A STRING of bombings killed nine people and wounded at least 33 others in Iraq yesterday, including a senior oil ministry official, authorities said.

A suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowd of army recruits killing at least 20 people, police said today.

Iraqi police said a female suicide bomber blew herself up in front of a government compound north-east of Baghdad, killing at least 10 people and wounding 35.

CAR bombs and a suicide attacker struck crowded areas in Baghdad and former insurgent strongholds to the north and west of the capital yesterday, killing more than 70 people and breaking a recent lull in violence in the predominantly Sunni areas.

A massive car bomb killed at least 30 people and wounded dozens of others in the Iraqi city of Baqouba today.

MARCH 17, 2003: US President George Bush gives Saddam Hussein 48-hour deadline to give up power.

US presidential hopeful John McCain arrived in Baghdad today for an unexpected visit with Iraqi and US diplomatic and military officials.

The US military said today that it accidentally killed nine Iraqi civilians during an operation targeting al-Qaida in Iraq south of Baghdad.

Two women suicide bombers who killed nearly 80 people in Baghdad today were Down’s Syndrome victims exploited by al-Qaida.

A women wearing a suicide vest blew herself up near a popular market and a Shiite mosque in restive Diyala province north of the capital Baghdad today, killing eight civilians and wounding seven others, police said.

A roadside bomb explosion struck a passing minibus north of Baghdad today, killing six people and wounding another three, the Joint Co-ordination Centre for the province said.

THE bodies of a Sunni policeman and four of his family members were found on the outskirts of a village north of Baghdad yesterday morning, just hours after they were abducted from their home by gunmen, authorities said.

Two separate suicide attacks in Iraq killed at least 34 people and wounded scores more today, shattering more than a week of relative calm.

Twenty-two people, including three children, were killed today when a suicide car bomb exploded outside a residential complex belonging to a state-run oil company in Iraq.