Security Developments in Iraq

Following are security developments in Iraq on Sunday, June 21, 2009 as reported by Reuters.

BAGHDAD – Two people were killed and 13 were wounded when a bomb went off inside a cafe in a Shi’ite district of southern Baghdad, police said.

MOSUL – A roadside bomb targeting an Iraqi army patrol killed a civilian and wounded three other people, including a policeman, in Mosul, 240 miles north of Baghdad, police said.

MOSUL – Gunmen killed a policeman in eastern Mosul, police said.

Following are security developments in Iraq on Saturday, June 20, 2009 as reported by Reuters.

KIRKUK – Iraqi security forces backed by U.S. troops arrested 11 people this week wanted on terrorism charges in Kirkuk, 155 miles north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said in a statement.

KIRKUK – A suicide truck bomb killed at least 34 people and wounded about 150 others outside a mosque near Kirkuk, 155 miles north of Baghdad, police and hospital sources said. Dozens of homes in the area were flattened by the blast.

BASRA – Iraqi security forces backed by coalition forces killed a suspected militant in Basra, 260 miles southeast of Baghdad, the U.S. military said in a statement.

MOSUL – Gunmen killed an off-duty policeman and wounded his mother when they opened fire on his car in western Mosul, 240 miles north of Baghdad, police said.

KIRKUK – A roadside bomb targeting a police convoy wounded two civilians in northern Kirkuk, 155 miles north of Baghdad, police said.

RAMADI – Two mortar rounds killed a man and wounded eight other people, including two police officers, when they landed on a house and a police station in southern Ramadi, 62 miles west of Baghdad, police said.

KIRKUK – Attackers stabbed to death a policeman in central Kirkuk late on Friday, police said.

BAGHDAD – Iraqi security forces found the bodies of four men with gunshot wounds on Thursday in a house under construction in Baghdad’s eastern Sadr City district, a security source said.

Following are security developments in Iraq on Friday, June 19, 2009 as reported by Reuters.

MOSUL – Gunmen killed Izzat Abdulla, coach of Iraq’s national karate team, in east Mosul, 240 miles north of Baghdad, police said.

MOSUL – Gunmen opened fire on an Iraqi army patrol, killing one soldier and one bystander in east Mosul on Thursday, police said.

MOSUL – Gunmen killed a civilian in west Mosul on Thursday, police said.

Following are security developments in Iraq on Thursday, June 18, 2009 as reported by Reuters.

MOSUL – Gunmen in a speeding car shot dead a civilian in northern Mosul, 240 miles north of Baghdad, police said.

MOSUL – A soldier accidentally killed another soldier when his rifle went off by mistake in eastern Mosul, north of Baghdad, police said.

KIRKUK – A roadside bomb wounded two civilians on Wednesday when it targeted a police patrol in central Kirkuk, 155 miles, north of Baghdad, police said.

Following are security developments in Iraq on Wednesday, June 17, 2009 as reported by Reuters.

BAGHDAD – Five people were wounded when a roadside bomb exploded in central Baghdad’s Karrada district, police said.

ISKANDARIYA – Gunmen killed a man in a drive-by shooting late on Tuesday in Iskandariya town, 25 miles south of Baghdad, police said.

Following are security developments in Iraq on Tuesday, June 16, 2009 as reported by Reuters.

SAMAWA – A roadside bomb killed a U.S. soldier in Samawa, 140 miles south of Baghdad, the U.S. military said in a statement.

BAGHDAD – A roadside bomb wounded a U.S. soldier on patrol in northeast Baghdad, a U.S. military statement said, adding that one U.S. Humvee vehicle was damaged in the explosion.

KIRKUK – Gunmen forced their way into a mobile phone shop and stabbed to death the owner in central Kirkuk, 155 miles north of Baghdad, police said.

KIRKUK – A bomb attached to a car killed one man and wounded five other civilians in central Kirkuk on Monday, police said.

MOSUL – A roadside bomb wounded a judge and two of his aides on Monday when it exploded near his car in northern Mosul, 240 miles north of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD – U.S. and Iraqi forces arrested three suspects linked to al Qaeda in Baghdad on Sunday during an Iraqi-led operation, a U.S. military statement said.

BAQUBA – Iraqi and U.S. forces arrested three suspects on Sunday accused of planting roadside bombs targeting Iraqi and coalition forces in Baquba, 40 miles northeast of the capital, a U.S. military statement said.

Following are security developments in Iraq on Monday, June 15, 2009 as reported by Reuters.

RAMADI – Police said they found the body of a fellow policeman who was kidnapped two days ago in northern Ramadi, 60 miles west of Baghdad.

GARMA – Police said two policemen died and a third was seriously ill after poisoned food was given to them by a driver at a checkpoint in Garma, 20 miles west of Baghdad.

BAGHDAD – A bomb attached to a bus killed a man and his wife and wounded one other civilian in the Shaab district, northern Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD – A bomb exploded inside a minibus, also in the Shaab district, wounding five civilians, police said.

Following are security developments in Iraq on Sunday, June 14, 2009 as reported by Reuters.

MOSUL – A roadside bomb targeted a U.S. military patrol, wounding two civilians in southern Mosul, 240 miles north of Baghdad, police said. Police had earlier said the blast was caused by a hand grenade.

MOSUL – Gunmen threw a hand grenade at a police patrol in Mosul, wounding two policemen and one civilian, police said.

NASSIRIYA – The U.S. military said Iraqi police seized a large stockpile of heavy ordnance, explosives, weapons and small arms ammunition on Saturday from a home in Nassiriya, 185 miles southeast of the capital.

MOSUL – A roadside bomb targeting an Iraqi police patrol wounded one policeman and two civilians in Mosul, police said.

BAGHDAD – A bomb attached to a car belonging to a member of a government-backed militia detonated at his house in Doura district, southern Baghdad, police said. No one was hurt.

Following are security developments in Iraq on Saturday, June 13, 2009 as reported by Reuters.

MOSUL – A roadside bomb targeting an Iraqi army patrol wounded two civilians in the west of Mosul, 240 miles north of Baghdad, police said.

SAMARRA – A U.S. soldier was killed by a roadside bomb on Friday during combat-related operations in northern Iraq, the U.S. military said, without giving details. Police said an Iraqi officer was also killed in the incident in Samarra, 62 miles north of Baghdad.

KIRKUK – A roadside bomb targeting an Iraqi police patrol wounded two policemen in central Kirkuk, 155 miles north of the capital, police said.

BAIJI – A roadside bomb killed a girl and wounded seven other civilians in Baiji, 112 miles north of Baghdad on Friday, police said.

TIKRIT – Police found the body of a young man shot in the head and chest in central Tikrit, 95 miles north of the capital, on Friday, police said.

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Security Developments in Afghanistan

Following are security developments in Afghanistan on Sunday, June 21, 2009 as reported by Reuters.

ZABUL – Eight Afghan civilians, five of them women, were killed when a roadside bomb hit their vehicle on Saturday in southern Zabul province, Ghulam Jailani, a provincial police official, said. Thirteen other civilians were wounded in the blast, he added.

BAGRAM – Two U.S. soldiers were killed and six more were wounded on Sunday when the main U.S. base in Afghanistan, Bagram, came under fire from several mortar rounds, the U.S. military said in a statement.

KUNAR – Several civilians were killed and more than a dozen were hurt overnight during an exchange of heavy fire between NATO-led forces and Taliban in eastern Kunar province, Fazlullah Wahidi, the provincial governor, said.

Following are security developments in Afghanistan on Saturday, June 20, 2009 as reported by Reuters.

HELMAND – A NATO-led air strike killed around 26 Taliban insurgents who were trying to plant roadside bombs in southern Lashkar Gah district on Friday evening, Dawood Ahmadi, a spokesman for the provincial governor said.

HELMAND – Afghan and Western forces killed eight militants during an operation in Gereshk district on Friday, regional Afghan army commander, Sher Mohammad Zazai, said.

ZABUL – Seven Taliban fighters were killed when they attacked a joint Afghan and foreign army patrol in the Arghandab district on Friday, Zazai also said.

EAST AFGHANISTAN – A U.S.-led coalition soldier was killed in an attack on a U.S. convoy in east Afghanistan, the U.S. military said in a statement, without giving details of the location of the incident.

KHOST – Afghan and U.S. forces detained four militants from the Haqqani insurgent network during a patrol in the Sabari district on Friday, U.S. forces said in a separate statement.

HELMAND – A British soldier serving with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was killed in a roadside bomb explosion in the provincial capital Lashkar Gah on Friday, the British Defense Ministry said.

ZABUL – A suicide bomber attacked an Afghan army convoy in the southern Shahjoy district but the soldiers did not receive any casualties or damage to their vehicles, the Defense Ministry said.

KHOST – Two Taliban fighters were killed after they tried to ambush an Afghan army unit in the eastern Ismail Khel district, the Defense Ministry said.

HERAT – Six civilians including three women were killed when a roadside bomb hit their car in western Gozara district on Friday, Mohammad Naqeeb Arween, a spokesman for the provincial governor said.

URUZGAN – Afghan police killed sixteen Taliban insurgents and detained one other during an operation in the southern Khas-Uruzgan district on Thursday, the Interior Ministry said.

No report filed for Friday, June 19, 2009.

No report filed for Thursday, June 18, 2009.

Following are security developments in Afghanistan on Wednesday, June 17, 2009 as reported by Reuters.

KUNDUZ – A provincial oil official, Mohammad Najib Jamal, was gunned down by unidentified gunmen while going to work in northern Kunduz province, provincial governor Mohammad Omar said. Two other people were wounded in the attack.

SOUTHERN AFGHANISTAN – Three soldiers from the NATO-led force in Afghanistan were killed by a roadside bomb in the south of the country, the alliance said. It did not release the nationality of the soldiers or the province in which the incident took place.

GHAZNI – Afghan and foreign troops killed three Taliban insurgents and wounded four more during an operation in Moqor district of Ghazni province, south of Kabul, a district police official said.

GHAZNI – Taliban militants killed four guards working for an Afghan road construction company in Qara Bagh district of Ghazni province on Tuesday, provincial police chief Khial Baz Sherzai said.

PAKTIKA – Afghan and foreign soldiers killed three insurgents during clashes in Ziruk district of southeastern Paktika province on Tuesday, the Defense Ministry said. No soldiers were wounded in the incident, it said.

WARDAK – Insurgents attacked a NATO-led base in Maidan Shahr district of Wardak province, west of Kabul on Tuesday, the alliance said. Soldiers returned fire from the base, wounding three civilians, it said.

KUNAR – NATO-led soldiers wounded one civilian when they fired a mortar round during a “training event” from a forward operating base in Pech district of eastern Kunar province on Tuesday, the alliance said.

Following are security developments in Afghanistan on Tuesday, June 16, 2009 as reported by Reuters.

KUNDUZ – Afghan and NATO-led soldiers killed three insurgents and wounded eight more during clashes in Chahardara district of northern Kunduz province on Monday, the Afghan Defense Ministry said. Two Afghan soldiers were also killed and one was wounded in the incident, it said.

SOUTHERN AFGHANISTAN – A soldier from the NATO-led force was killed during an insurgent attack on Monday in the south of the country, the alliance said. It gave no further details about the nationality of the soldier or the location of the attack.

Following are security developments in Afghanistan on Monday, June 15, 2009 as reported by Reuters.

HELMAND – Afghan police and soldiers in a joint operation with foreign troops killed five insurgents in Nad Ali district of southern Helmand province, the Interior Ministry said.

FARAH – Afghan troops killed three insurgents in an operation in western Farah province, the defense ministry said on Monday.

KANDAHAR – A soldier with the NATO-led force was killed in an explosion in southern Kandahar province on Sunday, the alliance said. The Afghan Interior Ministry reported that a district police chief was also killed, and a provincial official said the two deaths were the result of the same blast.