Moscow confirms diplomat killed, four kidnapped in Baghdad

Posted: 06:23 AEST

Russia's foreign ministry set up a crisis cell to find and free four Russian embassy employees kidnapped on Saturday in west Baghdad, following an attack which left one Russian killed.

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Posted: 15:22 AEST

Four telephone workers shot dead in Baghdad

Four employees of a telephone exchange in Baghdad's Sadr city neighbourhood were shot dead as they arrived for work, an interior ministry official said today.

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Posted: 08:20 AEST

Iraqi civilians killed in training accident: US military

A US artillery round landed in a small Iraqi town and police reported afterwards that two civilians were killed in a blast and one woman later died from her wounds, the US military says.

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