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.

A string of car bomb attacks in and around Baghdad has killed 15 people and wounded dozens.

A wave of bombings has left at least 43 people dead in Iraq.

At least 27 people have been killed and more than 40 others wounded after a suicide bomber driving a car packed with explosives detonated the vehicle near an Iraqi military base as soldiers changed shifts, according to authorities.

Bombings and shootings killed more than 32 people across Iraq yesterday, underscoring the government’s struggle with a stubborn insurgency more than nine months after the last US troops withdrew.

Bombs striking Shiite neighbourhoods, security forces and other targets across Iraq killed at least 26 people today.

Bombs striking Shiite neighbourhoods, security forces and other targets across Iraq killed at least 19 people today, officials said.

At least 15 people have been killed and dozens wounded when militants launched attacks in central and northern Iraq, the latest wave of strikes aimed at undermining the government’s authority.

At least 69 people were killed in a wave of explosions across Iraq today.

Market blasts and other bombings across Iraq killed at least 33 people and wounded nearly 100 today, spurring security officials to clamp down on traffic as Shiite Muslims brace for more tragedy during pilgrimages this week.

At least 33 people have been killed in a series of blasts in Iraq, officials said today.

Eight people have been killed and 45 others injured in a series of blasts in central Iraq, officials said today.

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

A series of bombs around Iraq’s capital have killed nine people and wounded more than 40 today, police said.

A wave of car bombings targeting Shia pilgrims has killed at least 65 people and wounded another 200 in several cities across Iraq, in one of the deadliest attacks since US troops withdrew from the country.

Co-ordinated car bombings targeting Shiite pilgrims in four Iraqi cities killed at least 56 people today in the latest wave of sectarian-fuelled violence, officials said.

Four coordinated car bomb attacks on Shiite pilgrims in the Iraqi capital have killed at least 20 people, police and health officials said.

A wave of bombings killed 18 Iraqis across several cities this morning, shattering weeks of calm in a reminder of the nation’s continued insurgency.

A series of blasts targeting the house of a leader of anti-al Qaida fighters has killed four people north of Baghdad, Iraqi police said.

A RAPID-FIRE series of explosions in and around Baghdad killed 13 people, including seven who died when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowd of police officers, officials said.

A rapid-fire series of explosions in and around Baghdad killed 16 people today, including 10 people who died when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowd of police officers, officials said.

A rapid-fire series of explosions in and around Baghdad killed 13 people today, including seven who died when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowd of police officers, officials said.

A special committee set up by Iraq’s prime minister today began an investigation into allegations of widespread abuse and torture in Iraq’s prisons, which is threatening to become a major issue ahead of January 30 national elections.

At least three Iraqis were killed and a child was injured after American soldiers stormed a tiny one-room house north of Baghdad and opened fire.

US and Iraqi forces detained 37 suspected insurgents over the past two days in raids in and around Baghdad, the US military said today.

At least 10 people were killed when a suicide bomber exploded his truck at a strategic bridge north of Baghdad today, sending cars plunging into the river, Iraqi police said.

Mortar rounds hit a US Air Force base north of Baghdad today, destroying one helicopter and damaging nine others, police said.

US-led forces conducting a crackdown on al-Qaida killed a senior member of the insurgent group who was responsible for the high-profile kidnappings of several Westerners, a military spokesman said today.

Iraqi officials have received reports that the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq has been killed north of Baghdad but the information has not been confirmed, the chief government spokesman said today.

Two British service personnel were killed and one was injured today as two helicopters crashed north of Baghdad, the British Ministry of Defence said.

Three suicide bombers driving chlorine-laden trucks struck in the Sunni insurgent stronghold of Anbar province, killing two policemen and forcing about 350 Iraqi civilians and six US troops to seek treatment for exposure to the gas, the military said today.

More than 700 additional US troops arrived in Iraq’s increasingly volatile Diyala province today, to try to quell burgeoning violence just north-east of Baghdad.

A car bomb and a suicide attacker killed at least 11 people in Baghdad today as militants showed increasing defiance to a major security operation in the Iraqi capital.

More than 100 Iraqis suffered breathing problems after a fuel tanker exploded north of Baghdad, police and medical officials said.

The US military said today it has no reports of a helicopter going down after witnesses reported an Apache had crashed north of Baghdad.

A Sea Knight helicopter crashed near Baghdad today, sending flames and a huge plume of black smoke into the sky, the fifth helicopter lost in Iraq in just over two weeks.

Qatar-based Al-Jazeera television aired video footage last night, which the station said came from an insurgent website showing a US helicopter being hit in central Iraq.

A US army helicopter “went down” today north of Baghdad and two US soldiers were killed, the US military said.

The US military today said it was investigating Iraq reports of a US helicopter being shot down north of Baghdad.

US soldiers destroyed two buildings being used by insurgents in a town in Anbar province, killing six militants, two women and a boy believed to be under two, the military said today.

In three simultaneous raids north of Baghdad, coalition forces killed 10 insurgents and an Iraqi civilian today.

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

Explosions killed eight people in Baghdad today, six of them when a parcel blew up in a central market and two when a bomb went off in a minibus in the east of the capital, police said. At least 22 people were wounded.

Iraqi police stormed a farm north of Baghdad early today and freed at least 17 people who were snatched a day earlier in a mass kidnapping of 64 workers and family members at the end of a factory shift.