IRAQ: Iraqi police: Car bomb in Baghdad kills 3

By SINAN SALAHEDDIN
The Associated Press

BAGHDAD (AP) — A parked car bomb targeted a restaurant in a mostly Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad on Tuesday, killing three people and injuring at least six others.

LEBANON: 2 men die of their wounds in Lebanon explosion

By BASSEM MROUE
The Associated Press

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — A Lebanese civilian and a soldier died Tuesday of wounds inflicted by this week’s bombing in the northern city of Tripoli, raising the total death toll to seven, security officials said.

SOMALIA: Bomb kills 6 in Somali town housing parliament

By Mohamed Ahmed
REUTERS

BAIDOA, Somalia (Reuters) – A bomb aimed at police exploded in the town housing Somalia’s parliament on Tuesday, killing six civilians and injuring 13 people, witnesses said.

Civilians have taken the brunt of Somalia’s civil war, with nearly 10,000 killed since Islamist insurgents began attacking the government and its Ethiopian army allies in early 2007.

Ethiopia calls for UN peacekeepers in Somalia

UNITED NATIONS: Ethiopia’s foreign minister on Monday called for the U.N. to deploy peacekeepers to neighboring Somalia, where Islamic militants appear to be gaining strength.

Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin’s comments came just days after an attack on an African Union peacekeepers’ base in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, killed at least 11 civilians.

LEBANON: Car bomb targets military bus in Lebanon, killing 5

By Borzou Daragahi
Los Angeles Times

BEIRUT – A car-bomb explosion struck a bus filled with Lebanese soldiers in the northern seaside city of Tripoli today, killing at least four people and wounding 30, including civilians, a Lebanese security official said. The bombing was the latest in a series of recent attacks in Lebanon and Syria that have unsettled the region, with Syrian officials today suggested evidence pointed to Islamic groups in Lebanon for a deadly weekend car bomb explosion in Damascus.