Iraq attacks kill 30, provincial governor wounded

Twin suicide blasts in the western city of Ramadi on Wednesday killed 23 people and left the Anbar provincial governor wounded in the latest attacks against government targets to hit Iraq.The co-ordinated bombings, which left a total of 30 people wounded, struck the governorate offices in the centre of Anbar's provincial capital and also killed and wounded senior security officials.The first attack struck near a security checkpoint at a road junction leading to the governorate offices in the centre of the Anbar provincial capital at around 9:30 am (0630 GMT).

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.

Ten people were killed and more than 35 wounded, including the governor of Anbar province, in two attacks in the western Iraqi city of Ramadi on Wednesday, doctors and police said.In the first attack at around 9:30 am (0630 GMT) at a traffic junction in the centre of the Anbar provincial capital, six people were killed and more than 20 wounded.A separate bombing 30 minutes later at the entrance to the nearby provincial council offices killed four people and wounded more than 15, including governor Qassim Mohammed Abid.

Violence in Iraq dropped in 2012, data released Tuesday showed, but insurgents proved they were still capable of mounting waves of attacks and a watchdog warned the country was still in a "low-level war".

A wave of shootings and bombings targeting security forces and a mosque in Iraq on Monday killed at least 24 people and wounded dozens more, security officials said.Attacks which targeted checkpoints in the Iraqi capital, houses in the western province of Anbar, and two further incidents north of Baghdad killed 16 people.Eight people were killed and 30 wounded in a double bomb attack near a Shiite mosque in Suwayrah, 60 kilometres (37 miles) southeast of the capital, a police lieutenant told AFP.

A triple blast in Ramadi, west of Baghdad, killed at least 10 Iraqis and wounded 15 on Thursday, security officials told AFP."At least 10 people were killed and 15 wounded when three simultaneous blasts hit the governorate offices in Ramadi, at 8:30 pm (1730 GMT)," a police lieutenant in the Al-Anbar provincial capital said.The officer said the casualty toll was a preliminary one and added that the bombings were probably "suicide attacks targeting policemen present in the area."

A suicide bomber detonated a car packed with explosives in the centre of the western Iraqi city of Ramadi Sunday, killing eight people including six policemen, police and a doctor said.The blast occurred at around 10:00 am (0700 GMT) near the offices of the Anbar provincial government, and also left 35 people wounded, according to police Major Rahim Zabin and a doctor at Ramadi hospital."A suicide car bomb targeted a police checkpoint in the centre of the city, about 200 metres (yards) from the Anbar government offices," Zabin said.