At lease 25 people were killed and 70 wounded in a suicide bombing at a coffee house in the town of Balad Ruz in Central Iraq's restive Diyala province late on Friday, a police official said on Saturd

Anti-Qaeda militiamen in the central Iraqi province of Diyala have been stripped of the right to bear arms, an official said on Sunday, sparking a wave of anger and warnings of unrest.

Iraqi security forces were sharply criticised on Saturday a day after a car bomb in a market in central Iraq killed 30 people, in the worst attack to hit the country since May 10.