Baghdad - At least 30 people were killed on Monday and another 68 were wounded when three suicide bombers blew themselves up one after another in a Baghdad market, media report said.
According to the Aswat al-Iraq news agency, the first attacker detonated a car bomb in the mostly Sunni neighborhood of Adhamiyah, and then, as people rushed to help the injured, two other attackers blew themselves up in the crowds.
Baghdad - Iraqis will go to the polls in January, in long- awaited provincial elections which are expected to help a process of national reconciliation, local media said on Monday.
The elections will take place on January 31 in 14 of Iraq's 18 provinces, with the disputed multi-ethnic Kirkuk province and the three autonomous provinces of Kurdistan excluded.
Campaigning for elections will start at the beginning of December and will last for two months, al-Arabiya television reported.
Baghdad - A female suicide bomber killed seven tribal police members on Monday in Iraq's Baquba city, witnesses said.
The bomber detonated herself in the midst of a tribal police checkpoint in al-Atibaa street in the centre of Baquba, 60 kilometres north of Baghdad, witnesses told Deutsche Presse-Agentur, dpa.
Eight people, including civilians and tribal police, were wounded in the attack.
Tribal police are also known as the Awakening Councils, which are members of Sunni tribes who coordinated with the US forces to fight al-Qaeda militants in Iraq.