Baghdad - Three people were killed and seven injured when a female suicide bomber blew herself up at a hospital west of Iraq's capital Baghdad on Sunday.

A doctor and his wife were among the injured in the attack that took place in Amiriyat al-Fallujah near the city of Fallujah, 50 kilometres west of Baghdad, the Iraqi al-Buratha news agency reported.

Earlier, US military said that extremists have killed four civilians, a policeman and a US soldier.

Baghdad - Extremists have killed four civilians, a policeman and a US soldier, the US military said Sunday.

Baghdad - Nine Iraqi civilians were killed and dozens injured on Saturday as violent attacks continue in Iraq.

In a twin blast in al-Ramadi city, eight people were killed and 22 injured.

The attacks took place as two suicide bombers blew themselves up near a police station in the capital of al-Anbar province, about 110 kilometres west of Baghdad, the Iraqi al-Buratha news agency reported.

Earlier, one person was killed and seven injured in a bomb blast in northern Baghdad, police said.

Baghdad - The Iraqi Presidential Board on Saturday ratified Article 50 of the law on provincial council elections, concerned with the controversial issue of representation of minorities in local councils.

"Today, the Presidential Board ratified Article 50 of the provincial council elections law, which was approved by the Parliament last week," the head of the presidential office, Naseer al-Aani, told Voices of Iraq news agency.

Baghdad  - One person was killed and seven injured on Saturday in a bomb blast in northern Baghdad, police said.

The bomb went off in the al-Qahira neighborhood, damaging nearby shops and vehicles, the Voices of Iraq news agency reported.

Meanwhile, a prominent al-Qaeda-in-Iraq leader was killed in the north of the Iraqi capital during an operation by Iraqi forces, Sahwa fighters and coalition forces, a US army statement said on Saturday.

Baghdad, Nov 8: The US military unit in Iraq has claimed that a senior Al Qaeda leader in the country was killed in a weapons cache-clearing operation carried out in north of Baghdad.

A statement issued by the US military on Friday said that Abu Ghazwan was killed late on Thursday in the Tarmiyah area.

Ghazwan led many terrorist cells in the Tarmiyah and Taji areas, and he advised and financed other terrorist cells in northern Iraq, The News quoted the statement as saying.

It said that the operation was carried out by coalition-supported Iraqi security forces and “Sons of Iraq”, also known as “Awakening Councils”. The paramilitary groups composed mainly of former insurgents who now work with US forces to fight al-Qaida in Iraq.