Our Iraq report from AFP:
BAGHDAD – Insurgents killed 26 people in a string of attacks across Iraq, capping a bloody week that has left some 250 dead since the country’s new leaders unveiled the first democratically-elected government in half a century…
This time, a suicide bomber blew himself up outside an army recruiting post at the former Muthanna airport in the centre of Baghdad, killing 13 and wounding 15, an interior ministry official said.
Insurgents in southern and eastern Baghdad neighbourhoods rained gunfire on police vehicles in two separate attacks, killing eight policemen and setting several patrol cars ablaze.
Four Iraqi commandos from the crack “Lightning Brigade” were killed and five wounded late in the day, when a suicide bomber detonated a car laden with explosives next to their patrol in Mosul in northern Iraq, police said.
A guard was also killed in a car bomb attack against the home of a senior defence ministry official…