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

NEWSDESK

FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, June 26
26 Jun 2008 19:43:20 GMT
Source: Reuters
June 26 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1930 GMT on Thursday:

* denotes new or updated item

* GARMA - A suicide bomber killed 20 people at a tribal council meeting in Garma, 30 km (20 miles) west of Baghdad, police said. Three U.S. Marines and two interpreters were among the dead, the U.S. military said.

MOSUL - A car bomb killed 18 people and wounded 80 near the Nineveh provincial governor's office in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, U.S. forces said.

SULAIMANIYA PROVINCE - Two militants were killed when a roadside bomb they were trying to plant blew up in a village near the town of Penjwin in Sulaimaniya province, about 300 km (190 miles) northeast of Baghdad, police Brigadier-General Hassan Nuri said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb killed a U.S. soldier on Wednesday in eastern Baghdad, the U.S. military said.

TUZ KHURMATO - An Iraqi soldier was killed when U.S. and Iraqi forces raided a village and clashed with gunmen near Tuz Khurmato, 170 km (105 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

MOSUL - Gunmen broke into a woman's house and shot her dead in eastern Mosul, police said.

MOSUL - A roadside bomb exploded near a police patrol in western Mosul, wounding 3 people, including one policeman, police said.

MOSUL - A parked car bomb exploded near a U.S. patrol in eastern Mosul, wounding one Iraqi civilian, police said.

BAGHDAD - U.S. forces detained the leader of a bomb-making cell in the Rashid district of southern Baghdad on Tuesday, the U.S. military said.

BAGHDAD - U.S. forces killed two militants, including an al- Qaeda cell leader, and captured 15 suspected militants on Thursday in various operations in central and northern Iraq, the U.S. military said.

(Compiled by Khalid al-Ansary, editing by Tim Cocks)


AlertNet news is provided by

Email this article       Send comments

Emergencies

•  Iraq in turmoil

MORE >>

NGO latest

•  Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt Donate to International Rescue Committee Programs for Iraqi Children
International Rescue Committee

•  Support for the Iraqi refugees in Syria
IBC- Turkey

•  UMCOR Hotline for June 24, 2008
UMCOR - USA

•  Air Serv International Appoints new CEO
Air Serv International

•  Operation USA to Aid Midwest Flood Victims
Operation USA - USA

MORE >>

Latest news

•  FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, June 26

•  Despite pressure, Mugabe says vote must go ahead

•  U.S. embassy in Venezuela says receives bomb threat

•  Bombs kill 40 in Iraq, Anbar handover still on

•  U.S. embassy in Venezuela says receives bomb threat

MORE >>
AlertNet news is provided by

Del.icio.us Del.icio.us  |   Digg Digg  |   NewsVine NewsVine  |   Reddit Reddit   
Thumb for /thefacts/imagerepository/RTRPICT/2008-06-26T145153Z_01_BAG310_RTRIDSP_2_IRAQ-BLAST_mainimage.jpg|/thenews/pictures/BAG310.htm
Thumb for /thefacts/imagerepository/RTRPICT/2008-06-26T144053Z_01_BAG308_RTRIDSP_2_IRAQ-BLAST_mainimage.jpg|/thenews/pictures/BAG308.htm
Thumb for /thefacts/imagerepository/RTRPICT/2008-06-26T143419Z_01_BAG309_RTRIDSP_2_IRAQ_mainimage.jpg|/thenews/pictures/BAG309.htm
Thumb for /thefacts/imagerepository/RTRPICT/2008-06-26T143249Z_01_BAG307_RTRIDSP_2_IRAQ_mainimage.jpg|/thenews/pictures/BAG307.htm
Thumb for /thefacts/imagerepository/RTRPICT/2008-06-26T142818Z_01_BAG306_RTRIDSP_2_IRAQ_mainimage.jpg|/thenews/pictures/BAG306.htm

A man attends to a boy, who was wounded in a bomb attack in Anbar's town of Garma, as he lies in a hospital in Falluja, 50 km (32 miles) west ...



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

Last updated:Thu Jun 26 19:45:44 2008