Three Iraqis, two US soldiers killed in Iraq

A suicide bomber blew up a car in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Monday killing a policeman and a civilian, as two soldiers were killed near Baghdad, security and medical officials said.A total of 37 people were wounded in the attacks, the first of which struck around 2 pm (1100 GMT) in the centre of Mosul, 350 kilometres (220 miles) north of the capital."Two people were killed, a policeman and a civilian, and 22 people wounded, including five police, when a suicide car bomber targeted their patrol," Mosul police Major Hussam Aldeen Mohammed told AFP.

A suicide car bomb in a central Iraqi town killed two American soldiers and wounded six others on Friday, a US military statement said."Two US Division-North soldiers were killed and six injured after a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device detonated near their combined patrol today," it said.Iraqi security officials earlier said four people were killed in the attack on a joint American-Iraqi patrol in Jalawla, northeast of the capital Baghdad, in Diyala province.

A Palestinian man who died under disputed circumstances in Israeli custody was given a hero’s funeral Monday, as thousands thronged his gravesite and Palestinian police fired a 21-gun salute. Palestinian officials, citing an autopsy, said Arafat Jaradat was tortured during Israeli interrogation. Israeli officials said more tests are needed to determine the cause of death, and Israel’s public security minister said he would allow an international expert to review the autopsy results.

Bomb attacks and firefights on Sunday in the restive central Iraqi province of Diyala killed five people, including two soldiers and a policeman, security officials said.One Iraqi soldier and a policeman were killed in a gunfight with insurgents in the agricultural village of Al-Hudaid, according to Major Mohammed al-Karkhi, spokesman for police in Diyala, north of Baghdad.Three insurgents were also killed and 10 people wounded in the shooting, which began Saturday night as armed groups sought to take control of Al-Hudaid, west of the provincial capital Baquba.

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.

Violence north of Baghdad on Saturday killed nine people, including five members of a Sunni Arab family slain early in the morning, Iraqi security and medical officials said.The attacks come with just months to go before all US soldiers must withdraw from the country, with American officials pressing their counterparts in Baghdad to decide whether or not they want an extended US military presence.

Four Iraqi soldiers were killed and 22 people were wounded in bomb attacks in northern and central Iraq on Thursday, security officials said.In the deadliest attack, three soldiers were killed and 12 wounded when an insurgent detonated a car bomb near an army base in Al-Sharqat, 300 kilometres (190 miles) north of Baghdad in Salaheddin province, a police officer said on condition of anonymity.

A 10-year-old and four police officers and police were killed Saturday in insurrectionist bomb attacks near Iraq's restive northern city of Mosul, a senior police officer said.A roadside bomb killed two police officers and a soldier Saturday morning in Qaiyara, south of Mosul, said commander Mohammed Ismail.He said they were part of a motorised patrol that was tricked into responding to a report about a false missile attack in Mosul, a hotspot of insurrectionist attacks.