Baghdad  - A man belonging to the minority Yezidi religious sect was killed in northern Iraq, the Voices of Iraq agency reported Wednesday.

The body of the man was found in a field in the northern province of Nineveh, an area where in recent years numerous Christians and members of other religious minorities in Iraq had been killed by Islamic extremists.

Baghdad  - Turkish President Abdullah Gul, in the first visit by a Turkish head of state to Iraq in 33 years, on Monday urged the Iraqi government to do more to uproot Kurdish separatists hiding in the mountains along Iraq's border with Turkey.

In a joint news conference in Baghdad on Monday, Gul and Iraqi Prime Minister Jalal Talabani, himself an ethnic Kurd, promised to present a common regional front in putting an end to cross-border attacks from militants from the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) based in northern Iraq.

Baghdad  - A bomber walked into a large group of mourners gathered for a funeral in the Iraqi province of Diyala on Monday evening and detonated the explosives strapped to his body, killing "many" and injuring "many more," police told an Iraqi news agency.

Baghdad - A bomber walked into a large group of mourners gathered for a funeral in the Iraqi province of Diyala on Monday evening and detonated explosives strapped to his body, killing "many" and injuring "many more," police told an Iraqi news agency.

A local police officer told Baghdad's Voices of Iraq news agency that it was not immediately clear how many died or were wounded in that attack. "But," he said, "the death toll will likely be high because of the strength of the blast."

Baghdad - Eighteen people were killed and at least 20 wounded in three bomb attacks apparently targeting Iraqi Sunni tribesmen who have joined with Iraqi and US forces to fight insurgents in central and western Iraq, police and media said Monday.

Two consecutive blasts rocked a market in the Nasr we al-Salam district of Abu Ghraib, 25 kilometres of Baghdad, Shakir Faza, an official with the local police, told German Press Agency dpa.

Baghdad - Turkish President Abdullah Gul arrived in Baghdad Monday at the beginning of a two-day visit, the first by a Turkish head of state to the country in 33 years.

Gul will discuss "issues of mutual concern" and "means of strengthening bilateral relations" in meetings with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani and Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, Nasir al-Ani, head of the Iraqi president's office, said in a press release on Monday.