BAGHDAD—Kurdish lawmakers demanded the government step up security in northern Iraq after a suicide truck bomb flattened a neighborhood in a small village yesterday, killing 19 people and injuring 30 others. Two suicide truck bombers targeted the Shiite Kurdish village of Wardek, about 35 miles southeast of Mosul, just after midnight.

The U.S. Army’s top general said yesterday that it was too early to tell whether a recent spike in violence in Iraq that has killed hundreds will have an impact on the pace that Washington withdraws its troops. Bombings since U.S. troops withdrew from Iraqi cities on June 30 have raised questions about whether the country’s security forces are capable of protecting the population. The issue is particularly sensitive for Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, a key U.S. ally who has tied his success to the general improvement in security over the past two years.

A bomb attached to a small truck exploded Friday at the entrance of a wholesale vegetable market, an Iraqi police official said, a day after Iraq’s prime minister promised increased security at checkpoints near government buildings and markets.

Eleven Iraqi police and military officers are under arrest as part of an investigation into how two trucks loaded with explosives managed to detonate Wednesday outside government offices in Baghdad, killing more than 100 people. Maj. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi, the chief Iraqi military spokesman in Baghdad, said the 11 commanders overseeing security, traffic and intelligence services in the targeted areas have been detained on suspicion of negligence.

Iraqi police and medical officials say that a series of explosions have struck Baghdad, killing at least 86 people and wounding more than 300.

Police say Iraqi forces seized a launcher loaded with 13 Iranian-made rockets after an attack against the U.S. base outside the southern city of Basra.

President Barack Obama is pausing in his relentless campaign for health care changes to bring a leading veterans organization up to date on how he intends to proceed on dual military commitments in Iraq and Afghanistan.

A double suicide bombing devastated a cafe packed with young people in northwestern Iraq on Thursday, killing at least 21 people, officials said, in the latest attack against a minority community.

The Iraqi health ministry says the number of American troops in Iraq diagnosed with swine flu has climbed to 67.

A double truck bombing tore through a Shiite community near the northern city of Mosul, while blasts in Baghdad Monday targeted primarily Shiites in a wave of violence that killed at least 43 people and wounded more than 200, Iraqi officials said.

BAGHDAD (AP)—A suicide truck bomber flattened a Shiite mosque Friday in northern Iraq, and roadside bombs struck Shiite pilgrims in Baghdad, as at least 51 people were killed and scores wounded nationwide.

The top U.S. general in Iraq says he disagrees with a colonel’s memo that urges an early troop withdrawal although the security situation is better than expected.

WASHINGTON—Navy pilot Capt. Michael Scott Speicher was shot down over the Iraqi desert on the first night of the Gulf War in 1991, and it was there that Bedouins apparently buried him. His remains were hidden in the sand from the world’s mightiest military all these years. In a resolution to the nearly two-decade-old question about his fate, the Pentagon disclosed yesterday that it had received new information last month from an Iraqi citizen that led Marines to recover bones and skeletal fragments—enough to identify the remains as Speicher’s.

The remains of the first American lost in the Gulf War have been found in Iraq.

The bombings shattered a period of relative calm in the Iraqi capital, raising to at least 306 the number of Iraqis killed in what has been one of the least deadly months for both Iraqi civilians since the war began.