Tag Archives: Iraq

Insurgents killed two civilians in Baghdad and a policeman in Mosul. Security forces captured an al Qaeda leader in Amiriyah. The Minister of National Reconciliation said five “armed groups” have laid down their arms.

Two police officers were killed in shootings in Baghdad. A policeman was killed during clashes with protesters in Halabja. Security forces arrested 10 wanted men in Basrah.

Insurgents killed an Awakening leader in Kirkuk, the Director General of Iraq’s Oil Marketing and a colonel in the Iraqi Army in Baghdad, and a civilian in Baghdad. The National Reconciliation Minister is meeting with unnamed “armed groups.”

A suicide bomber killed an Awakening commander and five members of his family in an attack in Dalouiya. Insurgents killed three Iraqis in four separate bombings in Baghdad.

Insurgents killed an Awakening fighter in Babil, a contractor in Mosul, and a lawyer in Kirkuk. Security forces arrested three terrorists in Fallujah.

Insurgents killed four people in bombings in Baghdad and Tikrit. Security forces detained a senior leader of the Islamic State of Iraq who was behind attacks in Kirkuk and captured four wanted men in Al Kut.

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.