Topic: Diyala Province

Seven killed in Iraq attacks

A spate of gun and bomb attacks across northern and central Iraq on Saturday killed seven people and left four others wounded, security officials said.In the disputed northern city of Kirkuk, a Shiite Turkman chemicals specialist for the state-owned North Oil ...

18 dead in attacks in Iraq's Diyala

Attacks in Iraq's confessionally mixed Diyala province, north of Baghdad, killed 18 people on Thursday, 10 of them in a market bombing in the town of Khalis, medical and security officials said.The bloodshed came as US Vice President Joe Biden ...

Bomb, gunmen kill 18 as Iraq marks U.S. withdrawal

KHALIS, Iraq (Reuters) - A car bomb killed 10 people and gunmen executed eight more in Iraq's restive Diyala province Thursday as the government hosted Vice President Joe Biden at a ceremony in Baghdad to mark the departure of American troops.The ...

Twin Baghdad blasts kill nine

Two bomb attacks minutes apart in west Baghdad on Monday evening killed at least nine people and wounded more than 20 others, security officials said, amid nationwide violence that left 12 dead.The first explosion occurred at around 8:30 pm (1730 ...

Car bomb at Iraq funeral kills 10

A car bomb ripped through a funeral procession near a mosque in central Iraq on Friday evening, killing at least 10 people, part of nationwide violence that left 14 dead.The explosion occurred at around 5:30 pm (1430 GMT) outside the ...

Twelve killed in Iraq attacks

Twelve people, among them six policemen, were killed and 14 others wounded in a series of attacks across Iraq on Wednesday, security and hospital officials said.Six policemen were killed when a suicide bomber detonated a vehicle packed with explosives Wednesday night ...

Seven killed in Qaeda-style Iraq raid on govt HQ

Gunmen blasted their way into government offices in central Iraq on Tuesday with two car bombs and suicide blasts that killed seven people and mirrored a March raid claimed by Al-Qaeda.Militants involved in the attack in Diyala's provincial capital of ...

While some Iraqis head home, others still fear violence

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Jasim Jubayer al-Ugaili recalls with obvious pain the night he and his family fled their home in western Iraq, carrying the threatening letter that drove them away: "Either leave within 72 hours or die."An estimated 1.5 million Iraqis ...

11 killed in Iraq after deadly mosque attack

A Sunni imam's family and four Sunni brothers were shot dead in attacks in central Iraq on Friday, a day after a suicide bomber killed 10 Shiite worshippers in a nearby mosque.The flare-up in restive Diyala province, part of nationwide ...

Suicide bomber kills 6, wounds 15 in Iraq mosque

BAGHDAD (Reuters) -At least six people were killed and 15 wounded on Thursday when a suicide bomber blew himself up inside a mosque in Iraq's restive Diyala province, a security official said.The attack took place soon after evening prayers in ...