Iraq attacks claim 14 lives

Two suicide car-bombings, along with a string of other attacks in and around Baghdad today, have left 14 people dead, police and army officials said.

A suicide car-bomber rammed into an Iraqi army checkpoint south of Baghdad, killing five soldiers in Mahmoudiyah, about 19 miles south of the capital. Several other soldiers were injured, according to army Lieutenant Odai al-Zeiadi.