Tag Archives: Iraq

Insurgents killed a policeman in Baqubah. Security forces detained 13 wanted men in Diyala. A court sentenced Baathist leaders Tariq Aziz, Ali Abed Hmoud, and Hussein Khidhierv to life in prison.

Insurgents killed three civilians and a policeman in Anbar, and kidnapped five Yazidis in Mosul. Security forces detained nine Baathists in Diyala, and captured several wanted men in Baghdad.

A suicide bomber killed nine soldiers in an attack on an outpost in Kanaan in Diyala. Insurgents killed a policeman in Mosul and a civilian in Baghdad.

Insurgents killed a policeman and a health official in Mosul. Security forces killed an al Qaeda commander in Addaya, and detained two al Qaeda commanders south of Kirkuk and eight wanted men in Basrah. Two insurgents killed themselves in a premature detonation in Shurqat.

Insurgents killed seven Iraqi soldiers in the Badush area west of Mosul, and a civilian in Baghdad. Security forces, backed by US troops, captured a Naqshabandiya leader in Kirkuk.

Insurgents killed two people in Fallujah and attempted to bomb an oil pipeline to Syria. Security forces detained eight wanted men in Kirkuk and Amara.

Insurgents killed the director of the air force training program and a civilian in separate attacks in Baghdad, and two civilians in a grenade attack near Fallujah. A bombing in the north shut down the Iraq-Turkey oil pipeline.

Insurgents killed a soldier and a university professor in Mosul, and a son of an Iraqi who works for the Anbar provincial council in Fallujah. Security forces captured the finance minister for al Qaeda’s Islamic State of Iraq.

A gunmen and a security officer were killed during a raid in Huweija. Insurgents killed a civilian in Mosul. A provincial official claimed US forces arrested two Iraqi policemen in Maysan.

Insurgents killed seven Iraqis at a train station in Basrah, two civilians in a shooting in Diyala, a policeman in Mosul, and a member of the Sunni Endowment in Baghdad. Soldiers killed a suicide bomber in Mosul.

Security forces detained a Saudi al Qaeda operative in Mosul. The Saudi was captured with his passport and a suicide vest in his possession. A tribal leader in Baqubah escaped an assassination attempt.

An al Qaeda suicide bomber killed eight soldiers and two policemen in Haditha. Security forces captured a senior al Qaeda leader in Mosul and detained 24 wanted men in Basrah.

Insurgents killed two Iraqis in bombings in Baghdad and Mosul. Security forces arrested more than 50 members of the “religious extremist” group Naqshabandiya during raids in Kirkuk.

Security forces killed five “terrorists” in Sulaimaniyah and detained 19 wanted men in Diyala. A suicide bomber killed only himself in Sulaimaniyah. Twenty-seven protesters were wounded in Maysan.

Insurgents killed six people in an attack in Fallujah. Two protesters were killed in Mosul, and scores of protesters and policemen were wounded in Baghdad, Kirkuk, Basrah, Fallujah, and Salahadin.

A suicide bomber killed 13 people, including three policemen, in Ramadi. Al Qaeda killed civilians in Diyala and a policeman in Tal Afar. Muqtada al Sadr returned to Iraq.

Insurgents killed two soldiers in Mosul. Security forces detained six al Qaeda commanders in Al Qaim. A policeman was killed in protests in Halaba, and 14 protesters were wounded in Dhi Qhar.

Insurgents killed two soldiers in Mosul and a cleric in Baqubah. Security forces captured an al Qaeda commander north of Baqubah, and broke up a terror group in Ninewa.

Insurgents killed 10 policemen in a car bombing in Samarra and a civilian in Fallujah. Security forces detained 20 wanted men in Maysan and 10 more in Diyala.

Insurgents killed three people in a bombing in Mosul. Security forces detained 16 wanted men in Diyala and a Naqshabandiya leader behind yesterday’s deadly bombing in Miqdadiyah.