SUICIDE in rural areas has been a hidden tragedy for a long time, a conference heard yesterday.

A SUICIDE car bomb outside an Iraqi army recruitment centre and other attacks killed a dozen people and wounded more than 50 yesterday.

A SUICIDE car bomber killed 14 Shi’ite worshippers as they left a Baghdad mosque yesterday, a Muslim holy day, ratcheting up tension between Iraq’s religious communities just nine days before elections.

A SUICIDE car bomb exploded on a busy Iraqi street yesterday, killing at least 68 people - almost all civilians - in one of the deadliest single insurgent attacks since the US invasion.

SUICIDE boat bombings targeting the key oil industry have forced the closure of Iraq’s biggest terminal, losing the country nearly one million barrels a day in exports, oil minister Ibrahim Bahr al-Ulloum said yesterday.

A SUICIDE attacker blew up a car in a crowd of hundreds of men waiting outside a Baghdad army recruiting centre yesterday, killing at least 46 in the second bombing in two days targeting Iraqis working with the coalition.

A SUICIDE attacker set off an explosion that tore through a commuter train yesterday near the rebellious region of Chechnya, killing 40 people and wounding scores of others.