Iraqi police said 14 people were killed in five terrorist car bomb blasts which rocked Sadr city in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad on Wednesday.

Iraqi police said 14 people were killed in five terrorist car bomb blasts which rocked Sadr city in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad on Wednesday.

An international counterterrorism conference is scheduled to be held in Baghdad on March 12 and 13 with a wide participation by international and Arab countries and the presence of the UN, according to the Iraqi Interior Ministry.

Sources said the agenda of the conference includes items providing for cooperation among the participating countries in security and intelligence fields in addition to pursuing and handing wanted persons.

Earlier, Iraqi Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, called many times for holding an international conference to combat terrorism and cited the attempts of al-Qaeda to exploit chaos in the Arab world to impose its agenda.