Baghdad - Iran has bombed Kurdish rebel positions in villages along the Iraq-Iran border on Thursday, a senior Iraqi official has said.
"Heavy shelling began at midnight and continued for an hour," the director of Sulaymanyah Zarawa district, Ezad Wasso, told the Voices of Iraq (VOI) news agency.
The bombing targeted the areas of Razka, Mardo, Shanawa, and Arka, some 15 kilometres from the Iraq-Iran border, Wasso explained, adding that no casualties were reported.
Baghdad - A bomb went off Thursday inside an Iraqi restaurant killing a policeman, a civilian and injuring another three, a police source said.
The blast took place in the Tal Afar district of Nineveh province, 405 kilometres north of the capital Baghdad, the Voices of Iraq (VOI) news agency reported.
The director of Karbala provincial council was killed on Thursday and two of his assistants were injured when a bomb went off inside their car tas they were travelling to work, an official told VOI.
Ankara - The Turkish parliament Wednesday extended for one year a mandate that allows the Turkish military to launch cross- border operations into northern Iraq to hunt down Kurdish separatists, who use the mountainous terrain as a base from which to launch attacks inside Turkey.
The mandate was carried by a clear majority, with 511 deputies voting in favour and only 18 against. The original mandate was due to end October 17. It now runs through October 2009.
Baghdad- A female suicide bomber detonated herself on Wednesday, killing six people and injuring 20, in Iraq's Diyala province, the Egyptian State news agency (MENA) reported.
The bomber had targeted an Iraqi police patrol near a court in the restive provincial capital city Baquba, located some 66 kilometres north of the capital Baghdad, according to the report.
The number of casualties was likely to rise due to the congestion near the scene if the attack, an Iraqi security official told MENA.
Baghdad- Three Christians have been killed in the space of 24 hours in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, Aswat al-Iraq news agency reported Wednesday.
A man and his father were both shot dead Tuesday at their workplace, while extremists forced their way into a pharmacy in another district of the city and killed a Christian assistant who worked there.
Extremists killed a man and his father in September in the same city, which is located some 400 kilometres to the north of the capital and which is home to the second-largest community of Christians in Iraq after Baghdad.
Baghdad - A mortar attack on Iraq's foreign ministry took place on Tuesday as visiting US Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte was due to hold a press conference in the Green Zone compound, al-Jazeera satellite channel has reported.
Two mortar rounds had landed in the area. At least five people were injured in the incident.
Baghdad - Iran has bombed Kurdish rebel positions in villages along the Iraq-Iran border on Thursday, a senior Iraqi official has said.
Baghdad - A bomb went off Thursday inside an Iraqi restaurant killing a policeman, a civilian and injuring another three, a police source said.
Baghdad- A female suicide bomber detonated herself on Wednesday, killing six people and injuring 20, in Iraq's Diyala province, the Egyptian State news agency (MENA) reported.
Baghdad- Three Christians have been killed in the space of 24 hours in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, Aswat al-Iraq news agency reported Wednesday.
