A suicide bomber, driving a bus carrying 24 Iraqi National Guard soldiers, detonated the vehicle Sunday morning outside a coalition base near Balad, north of Baghdad, killing 18 soldiers and an Iraqi female civilian, a 1st Infantry Division spokesman has told CNN. Six other Iraqi soldiers were wounded. The suicide bomber was also killed in the attack. The spokesman said the explosion was the result of a vehicle-born improvised explosive device, VBIED, or car bomb. Full Story