Iraq

Suicide bombers target Baghdad mosque, killing 26

15 hours, 26 minutes ago

Fifteen people were killed in bomb attacks on Monday, including one caused by a suicide bomber who set off his explosives-laden belt among a group of policemen in Fallujah, west of Baghdad.

Shiite Iraq militia claims it attacked Iran group

1 day ago

A Shiite militia has claimed responsibility for a rocket attack over the weekend on a sprawling camp near Baghdad that killed two members of an Iranian exile group.

Separate attacks kill 32 people across Iraq

2 days ago

And in the town of Mahmoudiya, 30 kilometers (20 miles) south of Baghdad, two civilians were killed and nine wounded when a car bomb went off in an open market.

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

3 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

5 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 increasingly drawn into Syrian battlefield

7 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

7 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

8 days ago

Al-Qaida leader scraps Syria, Iraq branch merger

Car bombs hit markets in central Iraq, killing 22

8 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

9 days ago

The Kurds have signed dozens of oil exploration deals with foreign energy companies over Baghdad's objections, including U.S. oil majors Exxon Mobil Corp. and Chevron Corp., and Total S.A. of France.

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

13 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.

Gunmen in Iraq ambush, shoot dead 14 travelers

13 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.

Gunmen kill 3 Syrian drivers in Iraq

16 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

17 days ago

Baghdad neighborhoods are patrolled solely by the Iraqi police and army, which still draw heavily from the Shiite majority that controls the levers of power.

Evening bomb blasts kill 30 in Baghdad

20 days ago

The southwestern neighborhood was one of the earliest flashpoints in Baghdad's descent into sectarian bloodshed in the years following the 2003 U.S. led invasion.

Iraqi officials: Bomb blasts kill 15 in Baghdad

20 days ago

Also on Wednesday, Iraqi officials raised the death toll from attacks the previous day that shook Baghdad and towns north of the capital to 28.

Deadly attacks in Iraq since US troop pullout

22 days ago

-May 27, 2013: A wave of car bombings tears through mostly Shiite Muslim neighborhoods of the Baghdad area, leaving at least 66 people dead.-May 21, 2013: Car bombing at a Sunni mosque kills at...

Iraq officials says separate attacks kill 14

23 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

28 days ago

-May 21, 2013: Car bombing at a Sunni mosque kills at least 20 people.-May 20, 2013: A wave of attacks, some at markets and in rush hour crowds, kills 113 people in Shiite and Sunni areas.-May 18...

UN: 14 Iranian exiles moved from Iraq to Albania

33 days ago

The MEK fought alongside Saddam's forces in the 1980s Iraq-Iran war, and its members fear persecution and death if they return to Iran.

Wave of bombings kills at least 33 in Iraq

33 days ago

The clashes there sparked a wave of violence across Iraq that has killed more than 230 people, posing the most serious threat to Iraq's stability since the last American troops left in December...

Turkey: oil search deal reached in northern Iraq

35 days ago

Both the United States and the Iraqi central government oppose allowing Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government to sign oil deals without Baghdad's approval.

Gunmen open fire on liquor stores in Iraq, 11 dead

35 days ago

During a session Tuesday, the Iraqi Cabinet reiterated its rejection of the deal and of the presence of PKK fighters, saying it "represents a flagrant violation of Iraq's sovereignty and...