Development In Iraq

Two bombing attacks in the central Iraqi city of Kut killed at least 33 people Monday. Over 100 people were wounded.

At least 15 people died and 38 were wounded when two bombs went off in the Iraqi city of Tikrit ز

At least 10 people were killed and 70 injured in series of bomb attacks on Friday and Saturday morning in the Iraqi holy city of Karbala .

At least 35 people died and 28 were injured in a double bombing attack in the city of Taji north of Baghdad on Tuesday

Armed men on Sunday killed five Iraqi police officers in a drive-by shooting in the western part of the country.

Three American troops were killed Wednesday in a rocket attack near a U.S. base close to the Iranian border.

Two car bombs Tuesday near the home of the local governor in Iraq's central city of Diwaniyah, killed at least 25 people.

The U.S. military stated that five American soldiers have been killed in central Iraq.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Wednesday called for a dialogue with rival blocs to gauge whether or not American forces currently in Iraq should stay .

Iraqi officials said an attempted prison mutiny early Sunday in Baghdad has left at least 19 people dead.

Suicide bombers activated two explosives-packed cars Monday outside Baghdad's Green Zone, killing at least nine people and injuring 23, officials said.

Bahrain's foreign minister said on Wednesday that the Gulf Arab states had asked the Arab League to cancel the Arab summit due to be held in Baghdad next month.

Nine people died, including four policemen, in attacks in and around Baghdad on Tuesday, security and hospital sources said.

News sources reported that the death toll from an attack on the Salahuddin province headquarters north of Baghdad rose to 58 killed.

Iraqi security and medical sources on Tuesday said at least 20 people, most of them policemen, were killed during an attack.