A wave of 16 bombings ripped across Baghdad today, killing at least 69 people in the worst violence in Iraq for months.

A wave of bombings has hit Baghdad, killing at least 60 people in the worst violence Iraq has seen for months.

A slew of bombings targeting Iraqi police in Baghdad has killed 10 people and wounded more than 20, Iraqi officials said.

Four Iraqis have been killed in two successive bomb attacks targeting a liquor store in western Baghdad, police and health officials said today.

Gunmen have killed an Iraqi electricity ministry employee and seven people have been wounded in a string of attacks in Baghdad today.

Twelve people were killed when a car bomb exploded near the offices of a mobile phone company in western Baghdad today, an Iraqi army official has said.

An evening explosion killed at least 10 people tonight and wounded 35 in a central market in Iraq’s second-largest city of Basra, officials said.

Suspected al-Qaida militants killed five Iraqi soldiers today in a brazen dawn attack at a western Baghdad checkpoint and planted the terror group's black banner before fleeing the scene, officials said.

Five people were killed today in a shooting and bombings in Baghdad, including two teenage girls suspected of prostitution who were shot by gunmen who stormed their home, Iraqi police said.

Bombings and drive-by shootings killed at least 25 people and wounded dozens more today around Iraq.

At least nine people were killed today in what appeared to be a series of co-ordinated attacks across Baghdad targeting police and army personnel, Iraqi officials said.

Three loud explosions shook central Baghdad in quick succession today, killing at least 12 people and breaking a period of relative calm in the Iraqi capital after elections last month.

Three loud explosions shook central Baghdad in quick succession today, breaking a period of relative calm in the Iraqi capital after elections last month.

Iraqis voted today in an election testing the mettle of the country’s still-fragile democracy as insurgents killed eight people across the capital with a barrage of mortars intent on disrupting the day.

The Iraqi capital Baghdad was hit by a series of explosions today killing at least a dozen people and wounding more than 100.

SUICIDE bombers targeted Shi’ite worshippers as they left morning prayers at two Baghdad mosques, killing 24 people and wounding more than 50 others, police said.

A suicide car bomb exploded at a checkpoint manned by Sunni tribesmen in northern Iraq today, wounding four of the men, police said.

A top aide to Iraq’s finance ministry was gunned down in western Baghdad, police said – one of six people killed or found dead across Iraq today.

US troops in Iraq have killed at least 52 suspected insurgents and detained 47 over the past week, the military said today.

At least 14 people were killed early today in a US attack on a western Baghdad neighbourhood, police and residents said.

A US soldier died of wounds received during combat operations in western Baghdad, the military said in a statement made in Iraq today.

Suicide bombers killed 13 people in a pair of attacks today around the Iraqi Sunni city of Ramadi, in what local officials said was part of a power struggle between al-Qaida and tribes that have broken with the terror network.

The US military today announced the deaths of seven more soldiers in Iraq, including four killed by a roadside bomb while they were patrolling western Baghdad, as casualties mount during a month-old security crackdown.

At least eight people were killed and 25 wounded when a suicide bomber struck a market in northern Iraq today.

At least 10 people were killed today when a car bomb exploded in a mixed neighbourhood of western Baghdad, Iraqi police said.

Car bomb blasts hit parts of Baghdad today in attacks apparently targeting security forces involved in an ongoing campaign to restore order in the capital.

FOUR Iraqi soldiers have been accused of raping a 50-year-old Sunni woman and the attempted rape of her two daughters in the second allegation of sexual assault levelled against Iraqi forces this week.

Mortar shells rained down today on a girls’ secondary school in a mostly Sunni area of western Baghdad, killing five pupils and wounding 20, witnesses and police said. At least seven other people died in a series of bombings and shootings across the capital.

US and Iraqi troops captured 84 suspects and destroyed a bomb-making facility in a series of raids in Iraq, the US military said today.

Saddam Hussein’s chief lawyer today implored world leaders to prevent the United States from handing over the ousted leader to Iraqi authorities for execution, saying the former dictator should enjoy protect from his enemies as a “prisoner of war".

Three bombs killed 13 Iraqis in Baghdad today, and the US military announced the deaths of three American soldiers.

A string of car bombs and other blasts killed at least 54 Iraqis on yesterday, including 17 outside Baghdad’s most venerated Sunni mosque.

At least 25 people were killed in co-ordinated car bomb attacks in western Baghdad today, a doctor at a hospital in the Iraqi capital said.

A curfew that had banned vehicles from Baghdad’s streets and closed its international airport to all civilian flights for three days was lifted today, clearing the way for Iraqi President Jalal Talabani to travel to Iran for an official visit.

After nearly a quarter-century of severed ties, Iraq said it would resume diplomatic relations with neighbouring Syria – a move seen as a possible step toward stemming some of the unrelenting violence, which claimed another 100 lives.

A series of attacks by suspected insurgents using guns, bombs and mortar shells killed a total of 13 Iraqis in Baghdad today.

Police raised the death toll in a suicide bomb attack on a Shiite coffee shop in Baghdad to 21 today, with 25 others injured, while gunmen killed at least one man and wounded four in an attack on a Shiite bakery.

Attackers struck a western Baghdad police station with a mortar and gunfire today, killing six policemen and wounding one other, police said.

A parked car bomb exploded today in Baghdad’s upmarket Mansour neighbourhood, killing at least six people and wounding 18 others.

Bomb attacks targeting Iraqi police patrols in Baghdad left at least 18 people dead and 57 wounded this morning, police said.

BRITISH and Australian forces yesterday handed over security responsibility for the relatively peaceful Muthanna province to Iraqi forces in the first such transfer of an entire province.

Masked Shiite gunmen went on a rampage in western Baghdad today, pulling Sunni Arabs from cars and off the street and killing at least 41 people, police said.

The US military today said it had intensified its search for two missing soldiers, with more than 8,000 Iraqi and US troops combing the volatile area south of Baghdad where the men were attacked.

Two separate parked car bombs detonated today in Baghdad’s Sadr City and in western Baghdad to kill at least 10 people and wound 51, police said.