Baghdad  - A female suicide bomber killed at least seven people Monday at an entrance to the fortified Baghdad diplomatic and governmental area known as the Green Zone, satellite news channel al- Arabiya has reported. Separately, 13 people were killed in a roadside bomb attack in an eastern Baghdad neighbourhood.

Eyewitness and security officials said the female bomber detonated herself at a Green Zone entrance used by high-ranking officials and staff from the Iraqi parliament. Iraqi military spokesman Qassem Attah told al-Araqiah TV that the woman was mentally handicapped.

The suicide bomber set off her bomb at a checkpoint for females. In Iraq, males and females are searched in separate check points.

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Damascus  - A two-day meeting of the Security Committee for Coordination and Cooperation on Iraq opened in Damascus on Sunday, the third time the US-backed group is meeting since its establishment

Baghdad , Nov. 22 : Iraq’s Mahdi Army, which is led by rebel leader Hojatoleslam Moqtada al-Sadr, has warned of a new insurgency across the country if the United States decides not to withdraw its troops till 2011.

“No, no to the agreement of humiliation,” al-Sadr’s followers chanted at a demonstration against the pact in a square in Baghdad on Friday.

Basra (Iraq), Nov. 22 : A senior Iraqi major general has accused Britain of allowing insurgents to rule Basra city for five years "without being punished or held to account".

In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, Major General Mohammed Jawad Humeidi said it was too soon for UK forces to be pulled out of Basra and called for the Americans to step in.