Roadside bombs kill policeman and 6 Iraqi soldiers in Mosul, Baghdad

October 7th, 2009 BAGHDAD - At least five people were killed and 15 others injured Wednesday in violence around Iraq, police told DPA. In the northern city of Mosul, two policemen were killed by a bomb as they patrolled the neighbourhood of al-Zahra.

September 23rd, 2009 Bombs kill 11 in Iraq's capital, northern cityBAGHDAD — A bomb exploded Wednesday outside a home in southwestern Baghdad, killing a woman and her two children, as other bombings killed at least seven Iraqi security personnel and a local politician in the capital and a volatile northern area. The blast outside the home of Mohammed Ali Wais in the Baghdad neighborhood of Radwaniyah killed his wife and two children.

September 23rd, 2009 Bombs kill policeman, 4 Iraqi soldiers in IraqBAGHDAD — Two roadside bombings in and around the restive northern Iraq city of Mosul and a third in Baghdad killed four Iraqi soldiers and a policeman on Wednesday. The policeman was killed around 9 a.m.

September 19th, 2009 Roadside bomb kills 11-year-old in north IraqBAGHDAD — Authorities say a roadside bomb has killed an 11-year-old boy and wounded his two friends in the violence-plagued city of Mosul in northern Iraq. A Mosul police officer says the bomb exploded around 4 p.m.

September 12th, 2009 Violence kills 2 in Iraq's capital and northBAGHDAD — Iraqi police officials say two people were killed in incidents involving bombs in the capital and the violence-plagued northern city of Mosul. In northwestern Baghdad, a bomb attached to a civilian car exploded, killing the driver and wounding two passengers.

September 9th, 2009 Iraqi troops raid Baghdad house, killing 2 menBAGHDAD — U.S.-backed Iraqi soldiers raided a home in southeastern Baghdad before dawn on Wednesday, killing two men inside and arresting an Iraqi soldier from an intelligence unit, police and a witness said. The raid took place in a predominantly Shiite district of the capital called Zafaraniyah, a police officer said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information.

July 27th, 2009 2 people killed in Iraq bombings targeting policeBAGHDAD — Two people were killed Monday in bombings across Iraq targeting police officers, considered the weakest link among the Iraqi security forces that have taken the lead from withdrawing American forces. The bombings primarily targeted police vehicles in Baghdad, western Fallujah and northern Mosul, areas that have experienced an increase in attacks on Iraqi forces since U.S.

July 11th, 2009 BAGHDAD - Four civilians were killed and 35 injured Saturday when a parked car bomb exploded in a residential district of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, police sources said. Mosul, 500 km north of Baghdad, has been the scene of near-daily bomb attacks since US troops withdrew from Iraqi cities and towns June 30.

July 9th, 2009 Bombings in Iraq kill 26BAGHDAD — A suicide bomber on Thursday killed at least 20 people and injured 40 near a judge's house in northern Iraq, and bombs in Baghdad killed six people, authorities said. The attacks came one day after car bombs in two Shiite villages near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul killed 16 civilians and injured more than two dozen, signaling the challenges that face Iraq despite big improvements in security in the past two years.

July 9th, 2009 Bombs in Mosul, Baghdad kill at least 41BAGHDAD — A suicide bomber on Thursday killed at least 34 people and injured 70 near a judge's house in northern Iraq, and two roadside bombs in Baghdad killed seven people, authorities said. The attacks came one day after car bombs in two Shiite villages near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul killed 16 civilians and injured more than two dozen, signaling the challenges that face Iraq despite big improvements in security in the past two years.

July 9th, 2009 BAGHDAD - At least 30 people were killed and 63 injured in two consecutive suicide bombings Thursday in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, police sources said. The bombers detonated their explosives in a crowded street in Tel Afar district, where many Shia Turkmen congregate, sources told DPA.

July 5th, 2009 Insurgent attacks in Iraq kill 2 in Mosul, BaqoubaBAGHDAD — Attackers targeted police patrols in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Sunday, killing a police officer with a grenade and injuring 14 people in a car bomb blast, authorities said. Separately, bombs in Baqouba, northeast of Baghdad, killed one civilian and injured 14 others, police said.

July 2nd, 2009 Roadside bomb kills Iraqi soldier in BaghdadBAGHDAD — Police say a roadside bomb killed an Iraqi soldier and wounded seven other people in central Baghdad. It's the latest in a wave of attacks following U.S.

June 25th, 2009 Iraqi police say bomb kills 7 in southwest BaghdadBAGHDAD — Iraqi police say a bomb has killed seven people and wounded 31 others at a bus station in a Shiite neighborhood in southwest Baghdad, the latest in a series of attacks ahead of a U.S. military withdrawal from cities next week.

May 18th, 2009 MOSUL - An Iraqi policeman was killed and three civilians were wounded when a suicide bomber targeted the home of the governor of a northern Iraqi province, according to news reports Monday. Citing local police, it said a man detonated explosives packed into his car 150 metres away from the home of Athil al-Najifi, governor of Iraq's northern Nineveh province, in downtown Mosul, some 400 km north of Baghdad.