Five dead as suicide bombs rock Baghdad Green Zone

Two suicide car bombings killed five people and wounded 15 on Monday at the entrance to Baghdad's heavily-fortified Green Zone, where an Arab League summit is to be held next month.Officials said the bombings occurred at around 8:30 am (0530 GMT) at the western gate of the Green Zone, which houses the offices of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, the Iraqi parliament and the US and British embassies.A queue of cars was waiting to enter the Green Zone when the vehicles exploded, a security official said.

BAGHDAD — A wave of bombings tore through Baghdad on Tuesday morning, killing at least 57 people in a spasm of violence on the eve of the 10th anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion. The attacks show how dangerous and unstable Iraq remains a decade after the war – a country where sectarian violence can explode at any time. And though attacks have ebbed since the peak of the insurgency in 2006 and 2007, tensions simmer and militants remain a potent threat to Iraq’s security forces.

BAGHDAD — A suicide bomber driving a vehicle packed with explosives blew himself up outside the offices of a major Kurdish party in northern Iraq early Wednesday, the deadliest in a wave of morning attacks that killed at least 31 people across the country.

Two suicide car bombs exploded Monday morning near a security checkpoint at an entrance to Baghdad's Green Zone, killing three people and injuring at least 20, officials with Iraq's Interior Ministry told CNN.

Five powerful car bombs rocked Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least 62 people, many of them students, wounding 105 and shattering a month of calm in the capital ahead of a general election.Two car bombs exploded near the labour and interior ministries, a security official said. A suicide attacker driving a car also struck a police patrol in Dora, in southern Baghdad, causing 15 of the deaths, an interior ministry official said.The first explosion in central Baghdad was heard at 10.25 am (0725 GMT) with a second blast within seconds and a third one minute later.

Three rockets slammed into Baghdad's heavily-fortified Green Zone on Monday, wounding a woman and her children, officials said, as US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta began the second day of a visit to press Iraqi leaders on security.The rockets wounded the woman and her three children, a security official said, but there was no report or indication the missiles had landed anywhere close to the US Embassy inside the zone.

A pair of suicide car bombs exploded near a security checkpoint in central Baghdad Monday morning, killing at least three people and wounding 20 others, Iraq's interior ministry said.

A total of 14 bombs were set against different Christian homes in Baghdad late on Thursday, with 10 going off and killing two Christians and wounding 16 others, an interior ministry official said Friday."Two Christians were killed and 16 wounded" by the 10 bombs that exploded, while security forces were able to carry out controlled detonations of four other devices, the official said.The only deadly attack was in the central district of Al-Ghadir, where a home-made bomb exploded at around 8:00 pm (1700 GMT), killing the two Christians and wounding three others.