War News for Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Baghdad:
#1: A Multi-National Division-Baghdad Soldier was killed during a small-arms fire attack while conducting combat operations in an eastern section of the Iraqi capital Sept. 25.

#2: The Iraqi army killed seven insurgents and arrested 47 during the last 24 hours in different parts of Iraq, the Defence Ministry said.


Diyala Prv:
#1: In other developments in Diyala province, 57 kilometres north of Baghdad, five Iraqis belonging to the same family were killed overnight in hours after they were reported kidnapped.

#2: in Diyala province, an Iraqi was killed and four others from one family were wounded after gunmen had planted explosive charges in a house near theirs.

#3: In northern Diyala, a hospital received the dead bodies of three Iraqis, including a 3-year-old child, a medical source said.


Latifiya:
#1: Police said they found the body of a man shot in the head in the town of Latifiya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad.


Iskandariya:
#1: Gunmen shot dead two men in separate incidents on Tuesday in the town of Iskandariya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.


Hilla:
#1: Ten civilians were killed in a US military raid on Hillah city. Iraqi police sources said US helicopters raided Hillah city, 100 kilometres south of Baghdad, in Babel province, killing five women and four children and damaging a house.

#2: The same sources said US troops stormed a Sunni mosque also in Hillah, killing its imam, Sheikh Hosni al-Janabi, but without providing a reason for the attack.


Basra:
#1: A captain from Basra police was shot down by a sniper in the center of the city, a local official security source said on Wednesday.


Tikrit:
#1: In a twin blast in Tikrit city, about 170 kilometres north-west of Baghdad, at least seven Iraqis were killed and five wounded, including some policemen, witnesses said. Two car bombs went off consecutively targeting Iraqi cars queuing outside a gas station and another in a car park downtown in Sharqat district, the witnesses added.


Hawija:
#1: Three civilians were wounded when a grenade was thrown at an Iraqi army patrol in the town of Hawija, 70 km (40 miles) southwest of Baghdad, police said


Mosul:
#1: Two car bombs at army checkpoints in the east of Mosul killed one person and wounded two. Police said they killed another would-be suicide bomber and defused his explosives.

#2: A suicide truck bomber targeting a court under construction killed three workers and wounded 47 others in Mosul, 390 kilometres (240 miles) north of Baghdad, Nineveh police chief, Major-General Wathiq al-Hamadani said.


Qadaa Sinjar:
#1: In a village near Qadaa Sinjar in the Nineveh province, around 250 kilometres north-west of Baghdad, meanwhile, 10 civilians were reported killed and nine wounded in a car bomb explosion. Four of those wounded were in a critical condition, the Voices of Iraq (VOI) news agency reported, citing hospital sources.


Al Anbar Prv:
Khalidiya:
#1: A policeman was killed and another was injured when an explosive charge went off targeting their vehicle patrol in northern Khalidiya, a police source said.