BAGHDAD : At least 12 people were killed in three bomb attacks in Iraq on Monday, police and medics said.Concerns of a descent into full-blown conflict have been mounting in recent months as Iraq’s delicate intercommunal balance comes under growing strain from the civil war in neighboring ...

BAGHDAD  - A deadly attack on a camp near Baghdad housing Iranian exiles Saturday killed two residents, the second such assault on the group this year as its members await resettlement outside Iraq.It was not immediately clear who was behind the attack involving at least half a dozen mortar ...

A wave of car bombs in southern Iraq killed 20 people on Sunday as the country grapples with a spike in violence and prolonged political deadlock, sparking fears of all-out sectarian war.In all, seven vehicles rigged with explosives went off in five cities south of Baghdad during morning rush hour, ...

BAGHDAD - A wave of violence across Iraq on Monday killed 61 people, nearly half of them in a series of attacks in the northern city of Mosul, officials said.In Mosul, which is populated mainly by Sunni Arabs, 29 people were killed when five car bombs targeted the army and police, the officials ...

A suicide bomber rammed his car into a bus carrying Iranian Shi'ite pilgrims in Iraq on Friday, killing at least nine people in an attack likely carried out by Sunni insurgents trying to ignite sectarian conflict.Al Qaeda's local wing and other Sunni insurgents have unleashed a wave of attacks ...

BAGHDAD - Baghdad has warned Israel that it would respond to any attempts by the Jewish state to use Iraqi airspace for a strike against Iran's controversial nuclear programme, a top Iraqi minister told AFP.The remarks from Hussein al-Shahristani, deputy prime minister responsible for energy ...

BAGHDAD : Attacks mostly targeting members of Iraq’s security forces killed 12 people on Sunday, the latest in an increase in violence in a country only a few years removed from a brutal sectarian war.The violence comes amid myriad political rows and fears that civil war in neighbouring Syria ...

BAGHDAD -  Attacks in Iraq on Thursday killed 11 people, including four soldiers, officials said, the latest in a wave of violence that has left 420 people dead so far this month. Gunmen attacked a checkpoint in Taji, north of Baghdad, killing the four soldiers and wounding five others, ...

KIRKUK : Several bomb blasts killed at least 12 people in Iraq on Tuesday, police said. More than 200 people have been killed in the past week as sectarian tensions, fuelled by the civil war in neighbouring Syria, threaten to plunge Iraq back into communal bloodletting. In Tuesday's violence, three ...

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 ...