4 killed, 17 wounded in suicide bombing in Iraq

August 29th, 2009 Suicide car bomb kills 5 police officers in IraqBAGHDAD — An Iraqi police official says a suicide car bomber targeting a police station in a remote village north of Baghdad has killed five officers. The official says the suicide bomber struck at about 8 a.m.

August 13th, 2009 Double suicide bombing kills at least 17 in IraqBAGHDAD — A double suicide bombing struck a cafe packed with young people in northwestern Iraq on Thursday, killing at least 17 people, officials said, in the latest attack against a minority community. The blast occurred shortly after 5 p.m.

April 25th, 2009 Iraqi officials raise bombing toll to 71BAGHDAD — The number of dead in a double suicide bombing at a revered Baghdad shrine has reached 71, Iraqi officials said Saturday, making the attack a day earlier the single most deadly in Iraq in more than a year. The attack by two female suicide bombers killed mostly Shiite worshippers around the shrine of Imam Mousa al-Kazim and was the second consecutive day of high-profile suicide bombings in Iraq.

April 23rd, 2009 BAGHDAD - At least 73 people were killed in two suicide attacks in Iraq Thursday, the interior ministry said. A suicide bomber blew himself up at a restaurant in the Diyala province, some 100 km northeast of Baghdad, killing 45 people and wounding 28.

April 23rd, 2009 BAGHDAD - At least 28 people were killed and 50 injured in a suicide bomb attack on the Iraqi police in central Baghdad Thursday, the interior ministry said. A suicide bomber blew himself among a crowd of policemen gathered at a road in Elwiyah area to distribute aid to displaced families, the ministry said.

April 16th, 2009 RAMADI - The death toll from a suicide bombing inside a military base in central Iraq Thursday rose to 18 with 53 soldiers injured, a military source said. 'The latest reports said that 18 Iraqi soldiers were killed and 53 others were injured in the blast,' the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

April 16th, 2009 RAMADI - At least 16 people were killed and more than 50 injured Thursday when a suicide bomber blew himself up near a military base in central Iraq, a military source said. The bomber wearing an explosive belt detonated himself in a restaurant inside the Habaniyah military base near the city of Fallujah, some 50 km west of Baghdad, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

April 11th, 2009 BAGHDAD - At least seven people were killed and 22 injured in a suicide bombing in south of Baghdad Saturday, an interior ministry source said. A suicide bomber blew up his explosive-vest among a gathering of Awakening Council fighters in Iskandiyah, a town some 50 km south of Baghdad, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

March 27th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - At least 45 people were killed and dozens injured when a suicide blast ripped through a crowded mosque during Friday prayers in Pakistan's Khyber tribal region along the Afghan border, officials said. The bombing in Bagiari village of the Khyber tribal district in north-western Pakistan demolished the two-storeyed building.

March 24th, 2009 BAQUBA - A suicide bomber killed at least 13 people and wounded 30 in a town in northeast Iraq Monday, the police said. The suicide bomber blew himself at the funeral of a relative of a local Kurdish leader in the town of Jalwlaa, some 140 km northeast of Baghdad, it said.

March 16th, 2009 KABUL - At least five policemen were killed and over 10 injured Monday in a suicide bombing attack in southern Afghanistan, officials said. 'A man with an explosive device tied to his body blew himself up in front of the gate of police department, leaving five policemen dead and injured 10 others,' senior police officer Kamaludin Khan told Xinhua.

March 11th, 2009 BAGHDAD - A suicide car bomb attack ripped through a tribal leaders' gathering in Iraq's Abu Ghraib area Tuesday, killing at least 25 people and wounding 20, an interior ministry source said. A suicide bomber rammed his explosive-laden car into a crowd of tribal leaders and senior army officers while they were leaving the town hall, 20 km west of Baghdad, the source said.

January 23rd, 2009 FALLUJAH - A suicide car bomber targeted a police checkpoint in western Iraq Saturday, killing at least five policemen, the police said. 'A suicide bomber drove his explosives-laden car before midday into a police checkpoint in the town of Garma, 15 km northeast of Fallujah city,' a police source said.

January 16th, 2009 KABUL - A blast believed to have been triggered by a suicide bomber wounded at least seven Afghans near the German embassy in Kabul Saturday, officials said. The attack took place in the front the embassy building, which is across from a US military base and some 200 metres from the presidential palace, officials said.

January 3rd, 2009 BAGHDAD - At least 37 people were killed and more than 50 injured in a suicide bomb attack near a shrine in northern Baghdad Sunday, an interior ministry official said. The bomber, who targeted Shia pilgrims, blew up his explosive-belt at a checkpoint near the main gate of the shrine of Imam Musa al-Kadhim, one of the holiest men for Shias, the source said.