The Kirkuk-Ceyhan oil pipeline was bombed May 8 in the district of Shirqat in Iraq's Salah ad Din province, a source in the North Oil Company said, Alsumaria reported.

Iraqi troops killed 14 militants during clashes in Mosul on May 4, Press TV reported.

Nine Iraqi policemen were killed May 3 in fighting in Mosul, AFP reported.

At least 460 people were killed in violence in Iraq in April, according to figures based on reports from security and medical sources, AFP reported May 1.

At least four members of the pro-government Awakening Council were killed and 22 were injured May 1 in a suicide attack in the Fallujah district of Anbar province that targeted them as they received their pay, Shafaq News reported.

Iraq's Communications and Media Commission has suspended the licenses of 10 television channels, including Al Jazeera, for allegedly promoting violence and sectarianism, a senior CMC official said April 28, Al Jazeera reported.

Recent violence in Sunni provinces is a sign that sectarian strife is returning to Iraq assisted by "foreign plots," Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said April 27 at the International Islamic Conference for Convergence and Dialogue in Baghdad, Xinhua reported.

Iraqi security forces moved back into the town of Sulaiman Bek, in Salah ad Din province, on April 26 after gunmen who seized it April 24 made an agreed-upon withdrawal, officials said, AFP reported.