Mosul (Iraq), Jan 8 : Eight people were killed and five injured in two separate conflicts in northern Iraq Friday, police said.

Clashes between US forces and gunmen on the Mosul-Baghdad road, south of Mosul, left five gunmen dead, police told DPA.

Separately, a tribal conflict left three people dead and five injured north of Mosul.

Mosul is the capital city of Nineveh and lies some 400 km north of Baghdad.

Mosul, Dec 21 : Five people were killed and seven injured in a suicide bombing in a northern Iraqi town Monday, police said.

The head of the municipal council in the town of Tel Afar, Hussein Mohammed Al al-Kris, was among the dead. The suicide bomber, who had the explosives strapped to his body, was also killed, according to police

Tel Afar, which lies roughly 60 km northwest of the city of Mosul, was the site of intense fighting after the 2003 US-led invasion.(DPA)

Mosul, Iraq  - Iraqi soldiers arrested a group of armed Syrian men north of Mosul, Iraqi police told the German Press Agency dpa on Tuesday.

Police in Mosul, some 400 kilometres north of Baghdad, said the Iraqi army's 3rd Brigade had arrested four men carrying weapons and Syrian passports near the village of al-Sada Baawiza.

The arrests came as Syria hosted firebrand Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in Damascus for the first time since February 2006.

Mosul, Iraq  - Athil al-Najifi, the Arab nationalist governor of Iraq's restive Nineveh province, is striking an uncompromising tone on thorny relations with Kurds in the provincial capital, Mosul.

In an exclusive interview with the German Press Agency dpa, al- Najifi, who led the Sunni Hadba Coalition to victory in January's provincial council elections on a platform of regaining control from Kurdish parties, said he expected Iraqi Kurdish parties "to come to grips with the changed situation" after his coalition's victory and the US withdrawal from the city.

Mosul, Iraq  - Six policemen were killed in three separate attacks over the past 24 hours in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, police said Saturday.

An improvised explosive device exploded outside the home of Mohammed Taha, a police officer from a village south of Mosul, late on Saturday afternoon, police in Mosul told the German Press Agency dpa.

Police on Saturday said they had also found the body of a dentist abducted from the street in front of his house the night before.

Mosul, Iraq - Two civilians were fatally shot in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Saturday, police said.

A source in the operations room of the Mosul police department told the German News Agency dpa that "unknown gunmen" fatally shot two civilians in the eastern district of al-Masaraf of the city, some 400 kilometres north of Baghdad.

The gunmen then fled into a crowd, he said, and police were investigating.

Mosul, Iraq  - A university professor in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul was murdered near her home, police said, in the latest incident in a string of attacks targeting intellectuals in the city.

Police did not release the woman's name, but said only that she was a professor of law and that she had been fatally shot near her home in the al-Intissar district of western Mosul.

Last month, Ahmed Murad Shehab, a professor in Mosul University's Faculty of Administration and Economics, was fatally shot in the predominantly Sunni neighborhood of al-Nur, on Mosul's left bank.

Mosul , Iraq - A truck bomb targeting a police station in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Friday killed five US soldiers and two Iraqi soldiers, the US military said. Police said a man drove a truck through the security barrier surrounding the Iraqi National Police headquarters in southwest Mosul on Friday, then detonated explosives packed in the vehicle.

The blast also wounded 20 Iraqi security officers and one US soldier, the US military said in a statement.

Mosul, Iraq  - In the second such killing in as many days, police on Thursday said they had found the body of another member of the minority Yezidi sect murdered near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.

Police said the man had been shot in the head and in the chest, and that his body was found in the Bashiqa district east of Mosul, where Iraqi and US forces have recently ramped up their campaign to break insurgent groups responsible for deadly, and near-daily, attacks in and near the city.

Mosul - A young Iraqi girl watched her mother die of gunshot wounds in the northern city of Mosul on Thursday, police said.

The girl, who was also wounded, and her mother became the latest in a string of casualties in the city when unidentified gunmen opened fire on a street in western Mosul, roughly 400 kilometres north of Baghdad. It was unclear whether the two were the intended target.

Mosul, Iraq - Two Iraqi soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb as they patrolled an area west of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Thursday, police there said.

The soldiers, who were on patrol in the al-Baj district roughly 60 kilometres west of Mosul, became the latest casualties in the government's attempt to pacify the area, which remains among Iraq's most dangerous.

On February 20, Iraqi security forces launched "Operation New Hope" in an attempt to arrest insurgents concentrated on Mosul's left bank. The push has netted more than

Mosul, Iraq  - Four people died in attacks near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Monday, police said, in the latest in string of clashes and bombings in the area.

Three civilians were killed and four others were wounded by stray bullets when Iraqi police officers and unidentified gunmen exchanged fire in the al-Salam district east of Mosul, a source in the city's police department told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa on Monday.

Mosul  - Fifty three-year-old Umm Farah, a mother of three, had no choice but to flee from Mosul to Baghdad on a wintry night. Like many others, she says, she was subject to death threats simply because she is a Christian.

As the country heads into an election period widely hoped to deliver stability and greater democratic representation, Iraq's Christian community is barely emerging from a wave of sectarian murder and intimidation.

Despite a reduction in violence in previously incendiary provinces such as Anbar, Mosul had become a locus of al-Qaeda militant activity by late 2008.

"Although Iraq's security had improved, we are still living through brutal days. We have lost our safety and security forever," said Umm Farah.