Reuters AlertNet Full site
Homepage | Newsdesk | NGO Latest | Crisis briefings | Country profiles | MediaWatch | Jobs | Alerting | Login

NEWSDESK

FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Nov 22
22 Nov 2009 13:50:15 GMT
Source: Reuters
Nov 22 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1300 GMT on Sunday.

* denotes new or updated item

* GARMA - A suicide car bomber blew himself up at a police checkpoint, killing one policeman and wounding seven people, including three policemen, in the town of Garma, 30 km (20 miles) west of Baghdad, police said.

* QAIM - Police shot dead a suicide truck bomber as he approached a police station in the town of Qaim, 300 km (185 miles) west of Baghdad, police said. Police managed to dismantle the vehicle without any casualties.

* BAGHDAD - A police colonel died of wounds sustained when gunmen opened fire on him while he drove in southern Baghdad's Saidiya district on Saturday, police said. His son was also wounded in the attack.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb wounded six people in central Baghdad on Saturday, police said.

MOSUL - Gunmen shot dead a teacher in front of his house in eastern Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, on Saturday, police said.

MOSUL - A roadside bomb wounded two Iraqi soldiers in western Mosul on Saturday, police said.

(Compiled by Khalid al-Ansary)


AlertNet news is provided by

Email this article       Send comments

Emergencies

•  Iraq in turmoil

MORE >>

NGO latest

•  Update: Global Campaign to End Violence Against Women Gains Momentum
ADRA - International

•  Iraq/Kuwait: high-level meeting to clarify fate of people missing since 1990-1991 Gulf War
ICRC - Switzerland

•  UMCOR Hotline for November 17, 2009
UMCOR - USA

•  Actress Sienna Miller to Serve as International Medical Corps Ambassador
IMC - USA

•  Prioritising simple, low cost interventions could save millions of children's lives every year, says aid agency
WV - International

MORE >>

Latest news

•  FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Nov 22

•  Pressure for progress at talks on rebel Karabakh

•  Iraq could join WTO by end of 2011-US official

•  FACTBOX-Security developments in Afghanistan, Nov 22

•  FACTBOX-How countries have coped with the oil "curse"

MORE >>
AlertNet news is provided by

Del.icio.us Del.icio.us  |   Digg Digg  |   NewsVine NewsVine  |   Reddit Reddit   
Thumb for /thefacts/imagerepository/RTRPICT/2009-11-17T020153Z_01_WAS32_RTRIDSP_2_IRAQ_mainimage.jpg|/thenews/pictures/WAS32.htm
Thumb for /thefacts/imagerepository/RTRPICT/2009-11-17T015901Z_01_WAS31_RTRIDSP_2_IRAQ_mainimage.jpg|/thenews/pictures/WAS31.htm
Thumb for /thefacts/imagerepository/RTRPICT/2009-11-16T205329Z_01_BAG410_RTRIDSP_2_IRAQ_mainimage.jpg|/thenews/pictures/BAG410.htm
Thumb for /thefacts/imagerepository/RTRPICT/2009-11-16T194823Z_01_BAG412_RTRIDSP_2_IRAQ_mainimage.jpg|/thenews/pictures/BAG412.htm
Thumb for /thefacts/imagerepository/RTRPICT/2009-11-16T194320Z_01_BAG414_RTRIDSP_2_IRAQ_mainimage.jpg|/thenews/pictures/BAG414.htm

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger visits with U.S. troops at Camp Victory in Baghdad November 16, 2009. Schwarzenegger visited U.S. soldiers at their camp in Iraq to meet and thank them for ...



Disclaimers |  Copyright |  Privacy |  Contact Us |  Feedback |  About Us |  RSS XML

Last updated:Sun Nov 22 13:52:06 2009