Iraq

Shiite Iraq militia claims it attacked Iran group

2 days ago

Cleric Wathiq al-Batat, who leads the Mukhtar Army, told The Associated Press on Monday that his group will continue to attack the Iranians until they leave Iraq.

Separate attacks kill 32 people across Iraq

3 days ago

In the oil-rich city of Basra by the Gulf coast in southern Iraq, a car bomb exploded in a busy downtown street, police said.

24 dead in new wave of Iraq attacks

3 days ago

Officials say 10 apparently coordinated car bombs and a shooting across Iraq have killed at least 24 and wounded dozens.

Al-Qaida's Iraq head refuses to scrap Syria merger

4 days ago

An audio message purporting to be from the leader of al-Qaida's Iraq arm has him rejecting an order by top al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri to scrap a merger with the terror network's Syria...

Sunni governor escapes assassination in Iraq

6 days ago

Iraqi officials say that the governor of Iraq's northern Sunni-dominated province of Ninevah has escaped an assassination attempt that left two people killed and three others wounded.

Iraq targets 4.5 million barrels a day in 2014

7 days ago

Chairman of the prime minister's advisory commission Thamir Ghadhban also said Wednesday that resource-rich Iraq is aiming at 9 million barrels a day by 2020.

Iraq increasingly drawn into Syrian battlefield

8 days ago

On Tuesday, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari insisted that Iraq has no official or military role in the civil war, and said Baghdad does not encourage the movement of any Iraqi fighters to...

Bombs, ambush kill 9 people in Iraq

8 days ago

Militants at a fake checkpoint shot three truck drivers dead Tuesday in an ambush, and bombings killed six people, as the deadliest violence in years plagues Iraq.

Al-Qaida leader scraps Syria, Iraq branch merger

9 days ago

Al-Qaida leader scraps Syria, Iraq branch merger

Car bombs hit markets in central Iraq, killing 22

9 days ago

Militants detonated explosives-laden cars around two busy markets in central Iraq on Monday, killing 22 people and wounding dozens, the latest in a wave of violence ravaging the country.

Iraq's PM visits Kurdish north to melt ice

10 days ago

It remains part of Iraq, however, and relies heavily on a share of the federal budget controlled by Baghdad to meet its budget needs.

Car bombs kill 5 in Iraq

11 days ago

Violence has spiked in Iraq in recent weeks, raising fears of a return to widespread sectarian bloodshed.

Car bombs kill 14 in Iraq, officials say

13 days ago

The attacks came just a day after gunmen ambushed a group of travelers at a fake checkpoint at a desert site in western Iraq, killing at least 14 of them.

Syria, like Iraq and Lebanon, is on path toward sectarian split

14 days ago

They've all left, a pattern that's been repeated across Syria and mirrors the demographic changes that war brought to its neighbors, Iraq and Lebanon, in past years.

Analyst who worked with Manning in Iraq testifies

14 days ago

He says he gave the material to the secret-spilling website WikiLeaks because he wanted Americans to see the truth about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Gunmen in Iraq ambush, shoot dead 14 travelers

14 days ago

Iraq witnessed its bloodiest bout of violence between 2006 and 2007, when the country was on the brink of civil war and armed men freely roamed the streets of Baghdad.

Kuwait telecom Zain takes step on Iraq IPO plans

15 days ago

Kuwaiti telecommunications provider Zain says it will set up a holding company for its Iraq operations as it prepares to sell a stake in the division to the public.

Gunmen kill 3 Syrian drivers in Iraq

17 days ago

Police officials said that the gunmen stopped the trucks, killed the drivers, and burned the vehicles during the Sunday morning attack near Rutba town in far western Iraq.

Spike in violence in Iraq has echoes in the past

18 days ago

Iraq again feels at an ominous turning point, even if the tallies of the dead are a fraction of what they were at the height of the bloodshed.

Deadly attacks in Iraq since US troop pullout

23 days ago

27, 2012: Insurgents launch attacks against Shiite mosques, security forces, and other targets in central and northern Iraq, killing at least 30.-Nov.

Iraq officials says separate attacks kill 14

24 days ago

Iraq has been hit by a wave of bloodshed that has killed some 300 people in the past two weeks alone, raising tensions between the country's Sunni minority and Shiite-led government.

Deadliest attacks in Iraq since US troop pullout

29 days ago

27, 2012: Insurgents launch attacks against Shiite mosques, security forces, and other targets in central and northern Iraq, killing at least 30.-Nov.