A roadside bomb struck a convoy carrying the police chief of a predominantly Shiite province south of Baghdad on Sunday, killing him and two of his bodyguards, authorities said.

AT LEAST 22 people were killed and dozens more wounded when a suicide car bomber struck the centre of a major Shiite city in southern Iraq today.

A suicide car bomber struck the center of a major Shiite city in southern Iraq on Tuesday, killing at least 22 people and wounding dozens as the streets were packed with shoppers and people on their way to work, police and hospital officials said.

By Associated Press BAGHDAD -- A suicide bomber apparently targeting a meeting of U.S.-allied Sunni sheiks penetrated layers of security and blew himself up in a hotel lobby on Monday, killing four tribal leaders and at least eight others, police reported.

The victims are believed to include up to six Sunni Arab tribal leaders who had allied themselves to the US military.