Round-up of Daily Violence in Iraq - Wednesday 30 June 2010 | McClatchy Washington Bureau

×
Sign In
Sign In
    • Customer Service
    • Mobile & Apps
    • Contact Us
    • Newsletters
    • Subscriber Services

    • All White House
    • Russia
    • All Congress
    • Budget
    • All Justice
    • Supreme Court
    • DOJ
    • Criminal Justice
    • All Elections
    • Campaigns
    • Midterms
    • The Influencer Series
    • All Policy
    • National Security
    • Guantanamo
    • Environment
    • Climate
    • Energy
    • Water Rights
    • Guns
    • Poverty
    • Health Care
    • Immigration
    • Trade
    • Civil Rights
    • Agriculture
    • Technology
    • Cybersecurity
    • All Nation & World
    • National
    • Regional
    • The East
    • The West
    • The Midwest
    • The South
    • World
    • Diplomacy
    • Latin America
    • Investigations
  • Podcasts
    • All Opinion
    • Political Cartoons

  • Our Newsrooms

You have viewed all your free articles this month

Subscribe

Or subscribe with your Google account and let Google manage your subscription.

World

Round-up of Daily Violence in Iraq - Wednesday 30 June 2010

Sahar Issa - McClatchy Newspapers

June 30, 2010 10:45 AM

The daily Iraq violence report is compiled by McClatchy Newspapers Special Correspondents in Baghdad from police, military and medical reports. This is not a comprehensive list of all violence in Iraq, much of which goes unreported. It's posted without editing as transmitted to McClatchy's Washington Bureau.

Baghdad

A roadside bomb exploded in Amil neighbourhood, southwest Baghdad at 8 a.m. Wednesday, injuring one policeman and one civilian.

Armed men in a speeding car, carrying pistols fitted with silencers opened fire upon a police checkpoint in Dora, south Baghdad at 8.30 a.m. Wednesday, killing two policemen and injuring one.

A magnetic bomb was stuck to the car of Tha'ir al Zubaidi, senior media officer at the Parliament. It detonated just as he got out of his car in Mansour, west Baghdad. He got away without any injuries.

Nineveh

A magnetic bomb that was stuck to the private car of a policeman detonated while he was driving in Mishraq neighbourhood, east Mosul, Wednesday, killing the policeman and injuring a civilian n the street.

Basra

A police patrol found the body of Sabri Abu Adnan, Head of the Local Council of Khaleej neighbourhood. He was kidnapped, Sunday, as he was getting into his car in front of his house.

Anbar

Armed men attacked a police officer in a medical compound in the city of Heet, 180 km to the west of Fallujah (240 km to the west of Baghdad) at 5.30 p.m. Wednesday. He was with his wife and two male relatives. The officer and the two men with him were killed and the wife was severely injured. Before the police officer died he shot and wounded one of the attackers, who was taken to the hospital with with the wounded wife. Inside the hospital the gunman detonated an explosive belt that he was wearing and severely injured two policemen and two civilians.

Kirkuk

A roadside bomb targeted a U.S. military convoy in Nasr village, to the south of the city of Kirkuk, Monday, June 28. The area was instantly cordoned off, and the Iraqi side has no information regarding American casualties and no casualties were reported by the U.S. military.

Read Next

Latest News

Trump administration aims to stop professional baseball deal with Cuba

By Franco Ordoñez

December 29, 2018 02:46 PM

The Trump administration is expected to take steps to block a historic agreement that would allow Cuban baseball players from joining Major League Baseball in the United States without having to defect, according to an official familiar with the discussions.

KEEP READING

MORE WORLD

Immigration

Why some on the right are grateful to Democrats for opposing Trump’s border wall

December 20, 2018 05:12 PM

World

State Department allows Yemeni mother to travel to U.S. to see her dying son, lawyer says

December 18, 2018 10:24 AM

Politics & Government

Ambassador who served under 8 U.S. presidents dies in SLO at age 92

December 17, 2018 09:26 PM

Trade

‘Possible quagmire’ awaits new trade deal in Congress; Big Business is nearing panic

December 17, 2018 10:24 AM

Congress

How Congress will tackle Latin America policy with fewer Cuban Americans in office

December 14, 2018 06:00 AM

Diplomacy

Peña Nieto leaves office as 1st Mexican leader in decades not to get a U.S. state visit

December 07, 2018 09:06 AM
Take Us With You

Real-time updates and all local stories you want right in the palm of your hand.

McClatchy Washington Bureau App

View Newsletters

Subscriptions
  • Newsletters
Learn More
  • Customer Service
  • Securely Share News Tips
  • Contact Us
Advertising
  • Advertise With Us
Copyright
Privacy Policy
Terms of Service