Blasts rock Baghdad before reconciliation talks
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Bomb blasts killed 15 people in Baghdad on Wednesday and suicide bombers attacked an Iraqi army base, overshadowing preparations for a conference intended to promote national reconciliation.
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A big explosion hits central Baghdad injuring 10 people, six days before elections are due to take place.
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A loud blast shook central Baghdad on  Thursday and black smoke rose near hotels used by foreign media  and security companies.
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Bombers and gunmen killed at least 41 people and wounded dozens across Iraq on Monday, while parliament leaders again put off debate on legislation that some Iraqis fear could threaten the country's unity and bring even more violence.
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Car bombs killed at least a dozen people in Baghdad and another major city Tuesday as pressure mounted on interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi to avert a full-scale US attack on the insurgent stronghold Fallujah.
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Two blasts killed up to 18 people,  including an American soldier, in Baghdad Sunday hours before  Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld visited Iraq to gauge efforts  to calm violence ahead of January elections.
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A loud explosion rattled central  Baghdad on Tuesday and a cloud of smoke rose close to the Green  Zone government and diplomatic compound.
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Police say at least 28 people were killed and 85 injured in twin car bomb blasts in Baghdad.
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A series of car bomb blasts tore  through Baghdad and the northern Iraq city of Mosul on Monday,  killing at least 26 people and wounding more than 100.
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Gunmen bent on revenge burned mosques and homes in a Sunni enclave of Baghdad on Friday as Iraq's leaders pleaded for calm, a day after the worst bomb attack since the U.S. invasion raised the specter of civil war.
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Predawn explosions yesterday ripped through five empty Christian churches in the Iraqi capital, which by nightfall also was the scene of the crashes of two US helicopters, which killed two soldiers and wounded two others.
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BAGHDAD -- Bombers and gunmen killed at least 41 people and wounded dozens across Iraq yesterday, while parliament leaders again put off debate on legislation that some Iraqis fear could threaten the country's unity and bring more violence.
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Baghdad was rocked by mortar fire and a suicide bombing on Wednesday, hours before the planned release a U.S. panel report expected to propose that U.S. forces withdraw from combat over the next year.
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Explosions damaged churches and hit a hospital and hotel in Baghdad on Saturday in fresh challenges to Iraq's U.S.-backed interim government.
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A powerful blast shook areas of central  Baghdad on Thursday and smoke could be seen rising from a  southwestern area of the city, witnesses said.
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AT least three people were killed and 45 wounded when two suspected car bombs exploded within minutes of each other outside two Christian churches in southern Baghdad.
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A powerful blast in the vicinity of the  Jordanian embassy in Baghdad killed at least two people and  injured 13 on Friday, witnesses and hospital officials said.