15 killed in Iraq attacksFifteen people, three of them Iraqi soldiers, were killed and 63 wounded in a spate of attacks across Iraq Monday, security and hospital officials said, days before US troops must leave Iraq's cities. In Baghdad's sprawling Shiite slum neighbourhood of Sadr City  This article or section may contain a proseline.Please help [ convert this timeline] into prose or, if necessary, a . , a roadside bomb hit a minibus min·i·bus n. pl. min·i·bus·es or min·i·bus·ses A small bus typically used for short trips. minibus Noun a small bus Noun 1. , killing three university students who were on their way to sit their final exams. Twelve other students and the minibus driver were wounded in the morning rush-hour attack. In Diyala province, one of Iraq's most dangerous, three soldiers Three Soldiers is a 1920[1] novel by the American writer and critic John Dos Passos. It is one of the key American war novels of the First World War, and remains a classic of the realist war novel genre. H.L. were killed by a roadside bomb that struck their patrol east of the provincial capital Baquba and destroyed their Humvee, a military official said. And in Khalees, also in Diyala province northeast of Baghdad, a former Al-Qaeda member who had recently been released from the US prison facility at Camp Bucca was assassinated as·sas·si·nate tr.v. as·sas·si·nat·ed, as·sas·si·nat·ing, as·sas·si·nates 1. To murder (a prominent person) by surprise attack, as for political reasons. 2. by a gunman, the official added. A woman and a four-year-old child were among three people killed when a bomb targeting a police patrol exploded near a market in Shaab, northeast Baghdad, hospital officials said. Another 30 people were wounded. Iraqi police set off a controlled explosion of another bomb in the same area soon afterwards. In the bustling commercial neighbourhood of Karrada in the centre of the capital, five people were killed and 20 wounded in a car bomb blast. The killings were the latest bloody attacks in the runup to the planned pullout pull·out n. 1. A withdrawal, especially of troops. 2. Change from a dive to level flight. Used of an aircraft. 3. An object designed to be pulled out. Noun 1. of US troops from Iraqi towns and cities by June 30. Violence has dropped markedly in Iraq in recent months, with May seeing the lowest Iraqi death toll since the 2003 invasion. But attacks remain common, particularly in Baghdad and the main northern city of Mosul. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki warned earlier this month that insurgents Insurgents, in U.S. history, the Republican Senators and Representatives who in 1909–10 rose against the Republican standpatters controlling Congress, to oppose the Payne-Aldrich tariff and the dictatorial power of House speaker Joseph G. Cannon. and militiamen would likely step up their attacks in the coming weeks in a bid to undermine confidence in the Iraqi security forces Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) is the Multi-National Force-Iraq umbrella name for the military and police forces that serve under the Government of Iraq. The armed forces are administered by the Ministry of Defense (MOD), and the Iraqi Police is administered by the Ministry of . In the deadliest attack for 16 months, 72 people were killed on Saturday in a massive truck bombing in the predominantly Shiite Turkmen town of Taza Kharmatu near the northern oil hub of Kirkuk. Insurgents also shot dead nine police in Baghdad and Mosul, Iraq's two most populous cities, on Saturday and Sunday. 
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