BAGHDAD -Reuters - More than 60 people were killed in a series of car bomb explosions targeting Shias across Iraq on Monday, police and medics said, part of the worst sectarian violence since US troops pulled out in December 2011.No group claimed responsibility for the bombings. Iraq is home to a ...

Five bombings and clashes between soldiers and gunmen killed eight people in Iraq on Tuesday, officials said, the latest in a spate of violence that has cost more than 370 lives so far this month.In Tarmiyah, north of Baghdad, clashes between Iraqi soldiers and gunmen and a suicide bombing killed ...

BAGHDAD - Violence in Iraq killed 11 people on Saturday including a police officer, his wife and two children, while gunmen kidnapped up to 10 people, among them police, officials said.The attacks are the latest in a wave of violence that has killed more than 270 people since the beginning of May, ...

BAQUBA Two bombs near a Sunni mosque and another targeting a Sunni funeral procession killed 49 people in Iraq on Friday, officials said, after two days of attacks against Shias that killed dozens.The surge in violence raises the spectre of tit-for-tat killings common during the height of sectarian ...

LOS ANGELES : A US soldier convicted of killing five of his colleagues in Iraq in May 2009 was sentenced to life behind bars Thursday and dishonorably discharged. Army Sergeant John Russell was convicted earlier this week over the murders at a clinic for soldiers suffering from war-related stress ...

KIRKUK - A suicide bomber attacked Shia mourners in north Iraq Thursday, killing 12 people, and 13 died in other violence, officials said, as Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki blamed sectarianism for unrest plaguing the country.The suicide bomber tried to enter Al-Zahraa husseiniyah, a Shia place of ...

BAGHDAD: Bombings inIraq, including a series of blasts mainly targeting Shia areas ofBaghdad, killed at least 25 people and wounded 68 on Wednesday, security and medical officials said. Car bombs hit Kadhimiyah andSadrCityin northBaghdad, Saidiyah in the south and Mashtal and Baghdad Jadida in the ...

TIKRIT : - A suicide bomber targeted the home of a senior Iraqi intelligence officer north of Baghdad on Saturday, killing three people, while three more died in other attacks, officials said.The bomber detonated a small tanker truck at the home of police Brigadier General Ismail al-Juburi, a ...

As Syria continues its descent into an anarchic civil war and Iraq is increasingly ravaged by sectarian infighting, a terrifying vision of the future of the Middle East is increasingly coming into view. In his 2008 book “Israel and the Clash of Civilizations”, the veteran British ...

  BAGHDAD: Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s State ofLawcoalition won the most provincial council seats in seven of the 12 provinces that voted, according to results released on Saturday. However, no list won a majority of seats in any of the provinces. The vote for provincial ...

MOSUL (AFP): Fighting in northern Iraq killed nine police Friday, while a car bomb targeting worshippers near a Sunni mosque north of Baghdad left nine dead, security and medical officials said. The fighting between police and armed men in west Mosul, including mortar rounds fired at checkpoints, ...

BAGHDAD : Three bomb attacks in Iraq on Wednesday killed 11 people, including four anti-Qaeda fighters who died when a suicide bomber struck as they gathered to collect their salaries, officials said.The bomber, who was on foot, detonated explosives at a police station in Fallujah, west of Baghdad, ...

BAGHDADAt least 23 people were killed in Iraq on Monday in a series of car bombs in Shia areas and militant attacks, medics and police sources said, taking the week’s death toll to nearly 200 as sectarian violence intensifies.Clashes have increased as the civil war in Syria puts strain on ...

BAGHDAD : Iraq has suspended the licences of 10 satellite TV channels for promoting "sectarianism", the country's media regulator said on Sunday, after five days of violence killed more than 215 people.The bloody unrest, which began on Tuesday with deadly clashes between security forces and Sunni ...

Five car bombs exploded Monday in mainly Shiite areas south of Baghdad, killing 16 people, officials said, the latest attacks in a seven-day wave of violence costing more than 230 lives across Iraq.The bloody unrest, which began last Tuesday with deadly clashes between security forces and Sunni ...

Parliament speaker Osama al-Nujaifi called on Monday for the cabinet to resign and for early elections to be held, as a seven-day wave of violence killed more than 230 people in Iraq.The initiative is aimed at "national reconciliation and maintaining the gains of democracy," as well as "sparing the ...

KIRKUK,Iraq:  Kurdish security forces deployed near the disputed northern Iraqi city ofKirkuk, a Kurdish official said on Saturday, a move allegedly aimed at combating militants in the area. In the past week, a wave of violence has killed more than 200 people country-wide, including dozens ...

BAGHDAD:  Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki pointed a finger on Saturday at the civil war in neighbouringSyriafor the return of sectarian strife toIraq, as a five-day wave of violence has killed 215 people. And the head of the Sahwa anti-Qaeda militia forces threatened war on militants if ...

BAGHDAD The United Nations warned on Friday that Iraq is at a ‘crossroads’ and appealed for restraint, as a bloody four-day wave of violence, including multiple attacks at mosques, killed 195 people."I call on the conscience of all religious and political leaders not to let anger win ...

BAGHDAD: A bloody two days of violence inIraqleft 118 people dead, with 99 of them killed in clashes and attacks involving security forces, protesters and their supporters, officials said on Wednesday. More than 240 people were wounded in the same period, most of them in protest-related unrest, ...

LOS ANGELES : AUSsoldier pleaded guilty Monday to killing five of his colleagues inIraqfour years ago, in a plea deal to escape a death sentence, a military spokesman said. Army Sergeant John Russell was accused of the May 2009 murders at a clinic for soldiers suffering from war-related stress ...

  KIRKUK   A wave of clashes and attacks involving Iraqi security forces, protesters and their supporters on Tuesday left 53 people dead and prompted two Sunni ministers to quit, sending tensions soaring. The unrest, which also included the kidnapping of a soldier by armed protesters, was ...

Dozens of attacks across Iraq on Monday, including a brazen car bombing en route to Baghdad airport, killed at least 24 people just days before the country's first elections since US troops withdrew.The violence, which struck during morning rush hour amid tightened security ahead of the polls, also ...

A coordinated attack involving a suicide bomber at an open-air election campaign meeting in central Iraq killed 25 people on Saturday, the latest in a spike in unrest two weeks before provincial polls.The assault raises further questions over the credibility of the election, Iraq's first since ...

A series of car bombs near Shiite mosques targeting worshippers attending weekly prayers killed at least 18 people on Friday, the latest in a spike in unrest ahead of Iraq's first polls since 2010.The blasts, which also wounded more than 100 people, struck within an hour of each other in the ...

Doyle McManus Ten years have passed since the United States invaded Iraq, a decision that almost everyone now ranks as one of the worst foreign policy blunders of our time. Why "almost"? Former President George W Bush and his top aides still maintain that the invasion was a good idea, even though ...

A suicide bomber killed three people and wounded 165 in northern Iraq on Monday, while four people were killed in shootings elsewhere in the country, security and medical officials said.The bomber struck at a police station in the town of Dibis, northwest of the ethnically mixed oil city of Kirkuk, ...

A series of bomb attacks across Iraq killed at least 12 people and wounded 64 others on Thursday, security and medical officials said.The deadliest of the blasts took place in Dujail, 60 kilometres (35 miles) north of Baghdad, where two car bombs minutes apart killed seven people. Another five ...

A series of attacks targeting both Iraqi security forces and civilians killed at least 25 people on Monday, officials and medics said, a day before the first anniversary of the departure of US forces.The violence comes after a string of attacks killed 19 people and wounded 77 on Sunday. Monday was ...

A spate of apparently coordinated attacks across Iraq on the eve of a festival marking the Islamic new year killed 19 people and wounded more than 150 others on Wednesday, officials said.The 13 bombings and shootings struck in Baghdad and nine other cities, the security and medical officials said, ...