Iraq News

A citizen was killed and four others were wounded due to a bomb explosion in Karrada targeting the third federal police division chief in Mosul Major Mohammed Sabri who escaped death. Embassies affairs director was wounded when a bomb planted in a car near Aqaba Ben Nafea square in Karrada District was wounded. Two sons of District Mayor Abdullah Salman in Bahraz region were killed and a third was wounded when a bomb planted in their car exploded in Abu Khamis village. Ten suspects were arrested, police said. An officer from the Interior Ministry Rapid Reaction Forces reported that US Forces and Interior Ministry Forces arrested jointly Iyad Jalal, an army official of the Naqshbandi order. Joint forces raided his house in Jalula and transported him to Salahuddin Province, he added. In Mosul, unknown gunmen killed a real estate agent in Al Kisk region, a security official said. A woman and her four children were wounded when gunmen detonated a nearby vacant house in eastern Mosul.