Car bomb kills at least 51 Iraqis, official says

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — In one of the deadliest attacks in Baghdad in months, at least 51 Iraqis were killed and 75 were wounded Tuesday in an car bombing, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official said.
U.S.-allied fighters collect the body of a comrade who was killed in a suicide bombing Tuesday in Baghdad.


Memorial Held for Long-Missing Soldier

PEORIA, Ill. Hundreds gathered in a Peoria, Ill., cemetery to remember an Ohio soldier whose remains were found in northwest Baghdad last days, nearly four months after he was missing and reportedly captured.

Staff Sergeant Keith Maupin was part of the Bartonville, Illinois-based 724th Transportation Company.


Bombs targeting Iraqi security kill 18

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) American soldiers in northern Iraq found a mass grave containing 14 bodies, all believed to be Iraqi security forces or anti-insurgent Iraqis, the U.S. military said Monday.
Iraqis inspect damage to a house caused by an explosion Monday at an Iraqi army checkpoint in Baghdad.
All were shot in the head and had […]


Iraqis Flock to Safe Haven of Revitalized Baghdad Zoo

BAGHDAD Families stroll the park’s sidewalks and picnic in the shade as laughing children clamor to see the main attraction — lions once owned by Saddam Hussein’s son, Odai.
Damaged after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, the Baghdad Zoo has made a startling comeback, and thousands of Iraqis are flocking here to escape the city’s grungy streets.


Saddam Hussein’s deputy PM faces trial

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — Court proceedings in the trial against Tariq Aziz, one of the best-known faces of Saddam Hussein’s former regime in Iraq, and several co-defendants have ended after being in session only briefly Tuesday.
The trial of Tariq Aziz, pictured here in a Baghdad courtroom in July 2004, has begun.


Female Italian sandwich votes out Iraqi tribal sheikh, minor

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) Two bombings in separate Iraq provinces on Monday killed eight U.S. troops, the U.S. military said.
A boy with a machine gun weeps Monday at the site of a suicide bombing in Kanan that killed a sheik.
A roadside bomb killed three U.S. soldiers and an interpreter in Diyala province, that has […]


Police: Adult female blows up Capital of Iraq store

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) A female suicide bomber struck Sunday in a predominantly Shiite area of central Baghdad, killing at least three people in an attack that occurred as Iraqi officials have been stressing the capital’s increased security.
An Iraqi boy watches as an man inspects the aftermath of a Sunday suicide bombing in Baghdad.