{"id":88229,"date":"2026-04-28T21:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T21:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/88229\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T21:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T21:11:08","slug":"iraq-security-roundup-explosions-arrests-and-court-rulings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/88229\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq security roundup: Explosions, arrests, and court rulings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                            2026-04-28T20:54:33+00:00<\/p>\n<p>                                    font<\/p>\n<p>                                            Enable Reading Mode<\/p>\n<p>\n                                        A-<br \/>\n                                        A<br \/>\n                                        A+\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>Shafaq News<\/p>\n<p>Below is a summary of key<br \/>\nsecurity and crime-related incidents reported across Iraq on April 28, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<br \/>\nCluster Munition Blast Kills Two Children (Babil)<\/p>\n<p>Two children were killed and<br \/>\ntwo others injured after a remnant of war exploded in Al-Iskandariya area north<br \/>\nof Babil province. Authorities secured the site and uncovered additional<br \/>\nunexploded cluster munitions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<br \/>\nSuicide Attempt Thwarted (Baghdad)<\/p>\n<p>Police rescued a young man who<br \/>\nattempted to jump from a bridge in Al-Salihiya, preventing the incident without<br \/>\ninjuries.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<br \/>\nCrystal Meth Seized, Suspects Arrested (Baghdad)<\/p>\n<p>Anti-narcotics forces seized<br \/>\n15 kilograms of crystal meth and arrested several suspects during a security<br \/>\noperation backed by judicial warrants.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<br \/>\nUS Embassy Activates Air Defense System (Baghdad)<\/p>\n<p>The US Embassy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shafaq.com\/en\/Security\/US-Embassy-activates-C-RAM-after-drone-detected-over-Baghdad-Green-Zone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">activated<\/a> its<br \/>\nC-RAM defense system after detecting an unidentified drone over the Green Zone,<br \/>\nwith no reported interception.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<br \/>\nSix-Year Sentence in Sorcery Case (Najaf)<\/p>\n<p>The Najaf Criminal Court<br \/>\nsentenced a man to six years in prison, fining him five million dinars ($3,244)<br \/>\nfor using sorcery to lure girls for sexual purposes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<br \/>\n22 Afghan Infiltrators Arrested (Kirkuk)<\/p>\n<p>Security forces detained 22<br \/>\nAfghan nationals who entered Iraq illegally during an operation targeting<br \/>\nresidency violations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<br \/>\nRoad Accident Kills Two Students (Babil)<\/p>\n<p>Two university students died<br \/>\nand several others were injured after a passenger minibus overturned on the<br \/>\nroad between Al-Hilla and Al-Kifl.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<br \/>\nWarrant Issued, Weapons Seized in \u201cAbu Deraa\u201d Case (Baghdad)<\/p>\n<p>Authorities issued an arrest<br \/>\nwarrant for Ismail Al-Lami, known as \u201cAbu Deraa,\u201d over charges of threats and<br \/>\ncoercion inside a government property office. <\/p>\n<p>A source told Shafaq News that<br \/>\nsecurity forces later raided a residence linked to him, uncovering a large<br \/>\ncache of light, medium, and heavy weapons, along with rockets and ammunition,<br \/>\nas he fled before the operation. <\/p>\n<p>Interior Ministry forces<br \/>\ndetained two suspects and seized vehicles and cash, with additional warrants<br \/>\nissued against others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-04-28T20:54:33+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News Below is a summary of key security and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[31316,16267,152,94,31315,21403,9187],"class_list":{"0":"post-88229","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iraq","8":"tag-and-court-rulings","9":"tag-arrests","10":"tag-breaking","11":"tag-iraq","12":"tag-iraq-security-roundup-explosions","13":"tag-suicide","14":"tag-war-remnants"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}