Gunmen killed a senior Education Ministry official today and a powerful car bomb exploded in a neighborhood in southern Baghdad killing at least 12 Iraqis, 4 of them police officers, and wounding 13, officials said.
Insurgents also detonated a car bomb in the nearby town of Taji, killing an American soldier and wounding two others.
...A geography professor at the University of Baghdad, Sabri al-Bayati, was fatally shot ....
...In the northern oil-rich city of Kirkuk, a 52-year-old district official, identified as Dalil Jabir, was shot eight times late Saturday in his home...
...Sheik Iyad Kurshid Abdel Razzak, a Sunni Kurdish religious leader, was gunned down by attackers ...
...Two Iraqi men working for Al-Iraqiya, an American-financed television station, were killed on Saturday near the Syrian border...
...Intense fighting continued in the Shiite slum of Sadr City in northeastern Baghdad. Six people were killed in overnight battles between American soldiers and a militia loyal to rebel Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr...
...A Lebanese diplomat said on Saturday that insurgents had killed a Lebanese contract worker and two Iraqi colleagues ...
...In late April, the Marines gave up control of Falluja to a militia composed partly of insurgents and loyalists to Mr. Hussein, and the city has since become a haven for anti-American forces.
