16 killed in various attacks in Iraq

Several Iraqi cities on Sunday witnessed several attacks and armed operations targeting in most of them the Iraqi police and army forces, and resulted in killing 16 persons and several gunmen.

Six Iraqis including two soldiers were killed together with one employees in the Iraqi ministry of health in attacks in the capital Baghdad and its quarters while the official responsible for "food supplies cards" escaped an assassination attempt in a booby trapped car, while one police col. was injured in Karkouk in another assassination attempt.

The Iraqi ministry of interior explained that two Iraqi soldiers were killed and other three injured in addition to 6 civilians when several mortars shelling fell near one of the camps of the Iraqi army in al-Mahmoudeyah area, south of Baghdad.

Three Iraqi soldiers were killed when a one booby trapped car went off when their vehicle was running in one of Baghdad's streets.

On the other hand, the American army announced the killing of seven gunmen in two separate operations in Salah Eddine governorate north of Baghdad on Saturday.

In another field development, one American soldier was killed on Sunday in a bomb explosion when an American vehicle was running south of Baghdad.

On Saturday, 22 Iraqis were killed in Baghdad in separate operations resulted also in killing one American soldier.

On the other hand, the Jordanian government refused to abide by conditions set by kidnappers of one driver of its embassy in Baghdad, in a deal that would release the driver in return for Amman's withdrawing its diplomatic representation in Iraq and the release of the Iraqi woman who is held by the Jordanian authorities over involvement in the recent explosions in hotels in Amman.