Smoke rises after a car bomb goes off in a parking lot near the Iranian embassy in central Baghdad Tuesday, killing four people and wounding five others, the police said. (Xinhua Photo)
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MNF-Iraq is reporting the death of a Multi-National Corps - Iraq soldier in Ad Diwaniyah in Qadisiya Province from a non-hostile, unspecified cause on Sunday, July 15th.
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Baghdad:
#1: A suicide car bomber drove his vehicle into an army patrol in Zayyouna, east of Baghdad Tuesday, killing eight and injuring nine others, Iraq's Interior Ministry said. Among the dead were three Iraqi soldiers. Four soldiers were wounded in the attack.
In Baghdad, the deadliest bombing occurred when a suicide driver detonated his vehicle near an Iraqi army patrol in Zayouna, a mostly Shi'ite area of eastern Baghdad, killing 10 people, including six civilians, police said. Police said 11 people, including seven civilians, were wounded.
#2: In central Baghdad, a car bomb exploded in a parking lot near the Iranian embassy late Tuesday morning, killing four people and wounding three others, an Interior Ministry official said. The attack took place in the Jumhoriya bridge area of the capital, according to the official.
#3: The ministry also said that the bodies of two Iraqi police officers kidnapped over the weekend were found Tuesday in western Baghdad's Mansour district. They were abducted Sunday in the capital while guarding Atheer Communications Company -- a telecommunications firm.
#4: Also in Mansour, gunmen opened fire on civilians who were waiting in line at a gas station, the Interior Ministry said. Three people died in the attack and two others were wounded.
#5: Early Monday, one person was killed and two others were wounded in an explosion in eastern Baghdad's Adhamiya district, a U.S. military statement released Tuesday said.
#6: On Tuesday, the U.S. command announced that American soldiers had killed about a dozen insurgents during a three-hour gunfight the day before in the Fadhil district, a Sunni enclave in the center of the city. The battle began when paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division came under fire from the Islamic Bank building, the military said. One U.S. trooper was slightly wounded, the United States said.
#7: Twenty five bodies were found dumped around Baghdad on Monday, police said.
#8: Twenty gunmen were killed and 20 others were arrested during the past 24 hours within the Baghdad security plan known as Fardh al-Qanoon, launched by the Iraqi government in mid-February 2007, the Baghdad security operations command said on Tuesday.
Diyala Prv:
Buhruz:
#1: An Iraqi journalist and a photographer in the volatile province of Diyala, have been kidnapped by a group of gunmen a media watchdog says. "Hassan Flaiyeh al-Shimmary, correspondent of local al-Diyar television and Adam Khalil, a photographer of the US Associated Press Agency, were kidnapped in the province," the Journalistic Freedom Observatory (JFO) said in a statement. Armed men intercepted the car of the two media workers while they were leaving the town of Buhruz near Diyala, some 65 km northeast of Baghdad, and dragged them out of their car before fleeing the scene, the statement said citing a local police report
Duwailiyah:
#1: Gunmen dressed in Iraqi military uniforms stormed a village in the restive Iraqi province of Diyala northeast of Baghdad overnight and murdered 29 people, security officials said Tuesday. Armed men stormed Duwailiyah village and killed men, women, and children, Colonel Raghib Rawi Al Omaili, spokesman for the Iraqi military in Diyala, said. "Twenty-nine villagers were killed and four were wounded in the terrorist attack on the village of Duwailiyah," he said, adding that the victims included women and children. "The gunmen were wearing Iraqi military uniforms to confuse the victims."
Muqdadiya:
#1: In Muqdadiya town in Diyala province, twelve people from one family including women and children were killed Tuesday, a security source said.
#2: Two women were also injured in Muqdadiya when gunmen opened fire on the women's car at a fake checkpoint in a major street.
Badra:
#1: Iraqi security forces meanwhile rearrested 20 Iranian prisoners who were among 24 who escaped from a prison in the city of Kut, a police source said Tuesday. The Iranians, who escaped from the prison Saturday night, were originally imprisoned after they had been captured while attempting to illegally enter Iraq. A police investigation is underway to determine how they managed to escape. Police had imposed a curfew in the village of Badra, located near the Iraqi-Iranian border, to be able to seize the fugitives, the source added.
Jurf al-Sakhar:
#1: Five people were killed in clashes between suspected al Qaeda militants and Islamic Army insurgents linked with former Saddam Hussein loyalists near Jurf al-Sakhar, 85 km (60 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.
Yusufiya:
#1: One policeman was killed and four civilians wounded by a roadside bomb near Yusufiya, police said
Suwayra:
#1: Police recovered five bodies from Tigris river in the town of Suwayra, south of Baghdad, police said.
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Basra:
#1: Basra airport in southern Iraq came under mortar or rocket fire which damaged the runway and forced authorities to suspend civilian flights for a day, a British military spokesman said Tuesday. Maj. Matthew Bird said the attack occurred Monday but did not cause any casualties. "As a result of one of the attacks, the runway received light damage, which led to the closure of the civilian International Airport for 24 hours and the cancellation of a number of civilian flights," Bird said.
#2: A convoy of British forces was on its way to the joint coordination center on Monday evening when it came under attack with an explosive device and light arms," the spokesman for the MNF in southern Iraq told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI). "The British forces fired back at the gunmen and killed a number of them," he said, not revealing the number of gunmen killed. He said no casualties were amongst the British forces' ranks.
Balad:
#1: An Iraqi judge was shot dead by gunmen at a fake checkpoint near Balad, 80 km (53 miles) north of Baghdad, police said
Samarra:
#1: Gunmen ambushed and killed the director of Dhuluiya hospital and wounded three other hospital employees near Samarra, 100 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad, police said
#1: Basra airport in southern Iraq came under mortar or rocket fire which damaged the runway and forced authorities to suspend civilian flights for a day, a British military spokesman said Tuesday. Maj. Matthew Bird said the attack occurred Monday but did not cause any casualties. "As a result of one of the attacks, the runway received light damage, which led to the closure of the civilian International Airport for 24 hours and the cancellation of a number of civilian flights," Bird said.
#2: A convoy of British forces was on its way to the joint coordination center on Monday evening when it came under attack with an explosive device and light arms," the spokesman for the MNF in southern Iraq told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI). "The British forces fired back at the gunmen and killed a number of them," he said, not revealing the number of gunmen killed. He said no casualties were amongst the British forces' ranks.
Balad:
#1: An Iraqi judge was shot dead by gunmen at a fake checkpoint near Balad, 80 km (53 miles) north of Baghdad, police said
Samarra:
#1: Gunmen ambushed and killed the director of Dhuluiya hospital and wounded three other hospital employees near Samarra, 100 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad, police said
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Kirkuk:
#1: Two journalists including a Swedish passport holder of Kurdish origin were among 85 people killed on Monday by a massive truck bomb in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, their newspaper said on Tuesday. Sports reporter Majeed Mohammed, and writer/researcher Mustafa Gaimayani were killed when the blast damaged the offices of the Hawal Media Institute, its chairman Hashwan Dawoudi said. Gaimayani had a Swedish passport and his family all live in that country, but he had moved to Kirkuk about five months ago to join the institute, Dawoudi said. Hawal produces a weekly newspaper from Kirkuk in Kurdish and a sister newspaper in Arabic called Al-Nabaa
Al Anbar Prv:
#1: Nine thousand U.S. and Iraqi troops have launched a fresh operation targeting militants in the Sunni Arab province of Anbar, the U.S. military said on Tuesday. It said the offensive began on Sunday.
Fallujah:
#1: Three policemen were killed on Tuesday when gunmen attacked their vehicle patrol in Falluja, a police source said."Unknown gunmen attacked a police vehicle patrol in al-Baath neighborhood, central Falluja, today at 2:00 pm," the source, who spoke on anonymity condition, told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI). The source added "the gunmen opened small-arms fire towards the patrol, killing three policemen and setting ablaze a police vehicle."
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Afghanistan:
#1: A suicide bomber killed two Pakistani soldiers in the North Waziristan region on the Afghan border on Tuesday, hours after pro-Taliban militants vowed to launch attacks on security forces. The attack on a checkpost was the latest in a wave of violence in Pakistan's northwest in which 100 people, most of them police and troops, have been killed in the past two weeks.
#2: Afghan troops clashed with suspected militants in eastern Afghanistan, just across the border from Pakistan, leaving several suspected militants dead and 10 Afghan soldiers wounded, a Defense Ministry statement said Tuesday. Near the Pakistan border, the body of a Pakistani militant was found in the battlefield Monday near Bermel district of Paktika province. The clash happened just across from Pakistan's lawless North Waziristan region where a recent spate of attacks left more than 70 people dead, mostly police and soldiers
#3: In the southern province of Kandahar, militants clashed with NATO and Afghan troops on Monday, in a battle that left eight militants dead, said Sayed Agha Saqib, Kandahar's police chief. There were no casualties among Afghan and NATO troop, and authorities recovered the militants' bodies, Saqib said.
#4: In neighboring Helmand province, a roadside bomb attack against a vehicle carrying Afghan soldiers in Gereshk district on Monday killed three troops and wounded two, said Mohammad Hussein, the provincial police chief.
In neighboring Helmand province, three Afghan army soldiers were killed and one other wounded when their ranger military vehicle was blown up by a newly planted roadside mine in Gerishk district of the province, Mohammad Hussain Andiwal, provincial police chief, told dpa.
#5: Afghan-NATO forces killed or wounded 16 Taliban militants in the southern region Tuesday while three army soldiers were killed in a roadside bomb in the same region, officials said. The 16 militants were killed or wounded in Zherai district of the southern province of Kandahar in a fight with Afghan and NATO forces on Tuesday morning, Sayed Agha Saqib, the provincial police chief, told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
#1: Two journalists including a Swedish passport holder of Kurdish origin were among 85 people killed on Monday by a massive truck bomb in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, their newspaper said on Tuesday. Sports reporter Majeed Mohammed, and writer/researcher Mustafa Gaimayani were killed when the blast damaged the offices of the Hawal Media Institute, its chairman Hashwan Dawoudi said. Gaimayani had a Swedish passport and his family all live in that country, but he had moved to Kirkuk about five months ago to join the institute, Dawoudi said. Hawal produces a weekly newspaper from Kirkuk in Kurdish and a sister newspaper in Arabic called Al-Nabaa
Al Anbar Prv:
#1: Nine thousand U.S. and Iraqi troops have launched a fresh operation targeting militants in the Sunni Arab province of Anbar, the U.S. military said on Tuesday. It said the offensive began on Sunday.
Fallujah:
#1: Three policemen were killed on Tuesday when gunmen attacked their vehicle patrol in Falluja, a police source said."Unknown gunmen attacked a police vehicle patrol in al-Baath neighborhood, central Falluja, today at 2:00 pm," the source, who spoke on anonymity condition, told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI). The source added "the gunmen opened small-arms fire towards the patrol, killing three policemen and setting ablaze a police vehicle."
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Afghanistan:
#1: A suicide bomber killed two Pakistani soldiers in the North Waziristan region on the Afghan border on Tuesday, hours after pro-Taliban militants vowed to launch attacks on security forces. The attack on a checkpost was the latest in a wave of violence in Pakistan's northwest in which 100 people, most of them police and troops, have been killed in the past two weeks.
#2: Afghan troops clashed with suspected militants in eastern Afghanistan, just across the border from Pakistan, leaving several suspected militants dead and 10 Afghan soldiers wounded, a Defense Ministry statement said Tuesday. Near the Pakistan border, the body of a Pakistani militant was found in the battlefield Monday near Bermel district of Paktika province. The clash happened just across from Pakistan's lawless North Waziristan region where a recent spate of attacks left more than 70 people dead, mostly police and soldiers
#3: In the southern province of Kandahar, militants clashed with NATO and Afghan troops on Monday, in a battle that left eight militants dead, said Sayed Agha Saqib, Kandahar's police chief. There were no casualties among Afghan and NATO troop, and authorities recovered the militants' bodies, Saqib said.
#4: In neighboring Helmand province, a roadside bomb attack against a vehicle carrying Afghan soldiers in Gereshk district on Monday killed three troops and wounded two, said Mohammad Hussein, the provincial police chief.
In neighboring Helmand province, three Afghan army soldiers were killed and one other wounded when their ranger military vehicle was blown up by a newly planted roadside mine in Gerishk district of the province, Mohammad Hussain Andiwal, provincial police chief, told dpa.
#5: Afghan-NATO forces killed or wounded 16 Taliban militants in the southern region Tuesday while three army soldiers were killed in a roadside bomb in the same region, officials said. The 16 militants were killed or wounded in Zherai district of the southern province of Kandahar in a fight with Afghan and NATO forces on Tuesday morning, Sayed Agha Saqib, the provincial police chief, told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
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