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BAGHDAD, Iraq — A report that 18 boys were killed this week in a car bombing in Ramadi is "false," a senior U.S. military official said Wednesday. Iraqi state television reported Tuesday that the attack occurred that day in the Sunni insurgent stronghold west of Baghdad. Iraqi police and military confirmed the account, but later said the bombing took place Monday. The offices of the president and prime minister had also denounced the reported attack. The report brought denunciations from top Iraqi officials and international groups about violence targeting children. But Rear Adm. Mark Fox, a U.S. military spokesman, said...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A car bomb exploded Wednesday near a market in southwestern Baghdad, killing at least 10 people and wounding 21 others, an Iraqi emergency police official said. The blast struck the capital's Bayaa neighborhood. Authorities said the death toll is expected to rise. "People were in a state of panic. There was a lot of blood on the ground, and we helped carrying the wounded to the ambulances," Shiite Muslim shopkeeper Imad Jassim told The Associated Press. In a later attack, a suicide car bomb exploded outside the Bab al-Sheik police station in central Baghdad, killing two...

Just heard on CNN that the original report was incorrect and the military confirmed it was a controlled explosion that was bigger than expected. CNN also admitted that they independently confirmed the report from other media sources.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi police and a community leader said a bomb blast near a soccer field in the city of Ramadi on Tuesday killed 18 people, mostly children, but the U.S. military said it was unaware of such an attack. Amid conflicting reports over what happened in the volatile western city, the U.S. military said its soldiers had carried out a controlled explosion in Ramadi, also near a soccer field, that slightly wounded 30 people, including nine children. "I can't imagine there would be another attack involving children without our people knowing," Major Jeff Pool, a spokesman for U.S....

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi police said a car bomb killed up to 18 boys on a soccer field Tuesday, but a spokesman for the U.S. military later said the explosion was a controlled blast by American soldiers and that 30 people, including nine children, were slightly wounded. The blast occurred in Ramadi, a hotbed of the Sunni insurgency. Maj. Jeff Pool, a Marine spokesman in Iraq, said the U.S. military was unaware of the attack described by Iraqi officials. "I can't imagine there would be another attack involving children without our people knowing," he said.

Just a headline on MSNBC's site at this point