In Baghdad, after a brief lull in major attacks, today saw two high profile bombings as well as a kidnapping of foreign workers in the capital. One bombing occurred at a Shia mosque in the Amil neighborhood in the western Rashid district. A suicide car bomber killed ten Iraqis and wounded at least 35 more in the attack. The second bombing occurred in a largely Shia neighborhood in central Baghdad. “At least 22 people were killed and 55 wounded when a parked minibus exploded in central Baghdad,” Al Jazeera reported. “The bomb went off in a busy commercial area where many day labourers, mostly Shias, often wait for work.”

Soldiers from the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division
provide security before conducting house to house searches
in the Sadiyah section of Baghdad, Iraq on May 6.