Envoy wounded as insurgents target diplomats

Sinan Salahedin, Baghdad

The attacks came three days after gunmen seized Egypt’s top envoy to Iraq in the capital, appearing to signal an insurgent campaign to discourage Islamic countries from bolstering ties with the US-backed Iraqi government.

The Bahraini diplomat, Hassan Malallah al-Ansari, was shot on his way to work in Baghdad. He was treated in hospital for a shoulder wound and released.