BAGHDAD — A suicide car bomb detonated Saturday outside the gates of a Marine base in western Iraq, killing at least 16 Iraqi police officers and wounding 40 people at a police checkpoint.

In Baqouba, the provincial capital of Diyala, two suicide bombers on foot blew themselves up at a police checkpoint, killing one policeman. At least 767 Iraqi security personnel have been killed since ...

Gunmen have killed four Iraqi police officers in a spate of shootings at security checkpoints in Baghdad. Two members of a government-supported militia have also been killed in a checkpoint attack.

Mr. MAHMOUD AL-SADI (Iraqi Police Official): (Foreign language spoken) BURNETT: Inside the destroyed police checkpoint, he counted 42 dead policemen. Thirteen others were kidnapped, three of those ...

"A checkpoint with four guys was blown up not ... Since the March 2003 invasion the Iraqi police force has grown to 80,000, and 40,000 additional cadets, ages 20 to 35, are in the pipeline ...

forces Iraqi police to keep cool, to meditate themselves into a confident trance, and to approach suspicious vehicles with authority. Call it the Stone Soup theory of checkpoint bomb detection.

BAGHDAD — Under a fierce summer sun, an Iraqi police unit marches forward, braced together under riot shields protecting them from a barrage of rocks and, moments later, kicks from a scrum of ...

"I'm sorry, I can't let you through without orders," said the Iraqi civilian manning the makeshift checkpoint ... One recent evening, police officers erected a row of concrete t-walls on the ...

The Sunni local police and the Sons of Iraq — former insurgents who became U.S.-backed paramilitaries — also have their checkpoints. The Iraqi army encircles Samarra. It is an often uneasy ...

A suicide car bomber attacked an Iraqi army checkpoint in Baqouba northeast of Baghdad on Wednesday, killing at least three Iraqi soldiers, police officers said. Five soldiers and three civilians ...

The Islamic State of Iraq, which al Qaeda is part of, released a video of a mafia-style attack on an Iraqi Police checkpoint in Nineveh. The video shows the gunmen approaching the checkpoint in ...