Ramadi

A suicide truck bomb killed 25 people and wounded 44 others near the Iraqi insurgent stronghold of Ramadi on Tuesday, police said. The attack took place near a makeshift football field and market in the Albufarraj area east of Ramadi as a police patrol passed by. Police, women and children were among the dead, police said.

Three suicide car bombers killed 20 people and wounded 35 others in the Iraqi insurgent stronghold of Ramadi on Monday, police said. A hospital source in Ramadi said 29 bodies had been received at the hospital following the blasts. The first car bomb went off near a restaurant popular with police officers, killing 13 people and wounding 12, police said.

Twenty one policemen were shot and killed when gunmen stormed two police stations in neighbouring areas on Sunday in the restive Iraqi province of Al-Anbar, a police officer said. The province is also home to the rebel-held cities of Fallujah and Ramadi, where expectations are mounting of an all-out assault by US and Iraqi troops to regain control of the flashpoints.

Insurgents blew up the Iraqi Red Crescent Society building in the Iraqi city of Ramadi, west of Baghdad, on Friday, the United States military said in a statement. There were no reports of injuries. A US marine patrol saw four insurgents filming the explosion at 4.30pm (1pm GMT), the statement said.