News Out of Iraq

-Insurgents killed three Iraqi police and wounded five others in what appeared to be a planned ambush in a market in the city of Baquaba Saturday morning, Iraqi police said. DETAILS

-Two rockets have struck the highly fortified Green Zone in Baghdad, the seat of the Iraqi government as well as the location of the US and British embassies. DETAILS

-Seven Shiite workers were gunned down Saturday in a religiously mixed area of west Baghdad, police said, and explosions rattled the heart of the Iraqi capital, shattering a one-day calm after a ban on private vehicles expired. DETAILS

-Seven Shiite workers were gunned down Saturday in a religiously mixed area of west Baghdad, and explosions in the capital killed one American solider and shattered a one-day calm after a ban on private vehicles expired. DETAILS

-The chairman of the council in the Iraqi city of Samarra narrowly survived an assassination attempt by one of his guards who blew himself up as his boss returned home, police said. DETAILS