Baghdad

Baghdad

• Iraq inspects 3rd Iranian plane to Syria this week

  An Iraqi official says the country has forced an Iranian plane headed to Syria to land in Baghdad so authorities could search it for arms. It's the ... 

• Iraq forces Iranian plane bound for Syria to land

  Iraqi authorities forced an Iranian plane to land on Monday so it could be searched for weapons bound for Syrian regime fighters, but they found only ... 

• Officials: Explosions kill 4 in northwest Iraq

  A trio of bombs exploded on Sunday in the northwest Iraqi city of Mosul, killing four security officers and wounding seven other people, officials ... 

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  Suicide bomber kills 20 at political rally in Iraq

  A suicide bomber blew himself up Saturday at a lunch hosted by a Sunni candidate in Iraq's upcoming regional elections, killing 20 people, officials ... 

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  Attacks in Iraq kill 3 soldiers, 5 civilians

  A series of bombs exploded Friday in Iraq, killing eight people in attacks that targeted members of both Sunni and Shiite Muslim sects, police said. 

• Notable Germans urge protection for Iranian exiles

  Several prominent Germans urged the U.S. and Europe on Wednesday to speed the resettlement of about 3,100 members of an Iranian opposition group ... 

• Gunmen in Iraq kill Sunni militiaman, his mother

  Iraqi officials say gunmen have shot dead a member of an anti-al-Qaida Sunni militia along with his mother. A police official said Yousef Sayhoud was ... 

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  Gunmen raid 4 newspaper offices in Baghdad

  Gunmen suspected of being Shiite militiamen burst into the offices of four independent newspapers in Baghdad, smashing their equipment, stabbing and ... 

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  US restraint in Syria could aid Iran nuclear talks

  President Barack Obama's reluctance to give military aid to Syrian rebels may be explained, in part, in three words: Iranian nuclear weapons. For the ... 

• Bomb-laden truck kills 7 at Iraqi police station

  A suicide bomber drove a fuel-laden truck into a police station in central Iraq on Monday, killing seven policemen, officials said. The morning attack ... 

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  String of attacks kills at least 23 in Iraq

  A series of car bombings in Iraq struck five Shiite mosques as worshippers were emerging from Friday prayers, killing at least 23 people, officials ... 

• Officials: Suicide attack kills 3 in Iraq's north

  Iraqi police and health officials say a suicide attack against a Shiite mosque in the country's north has killed three worshippers and wounded up to ... 

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  Kerry heads home after Iraq, Afghanistan visits

  U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry headed for home Wednesday after making clandestine journeys to Iraq and Afghanistan, where he delivered a stern ... 

• Officials: Attacks in Iraq kill 5, wound 25 people

  Iraqi officials say two attacks in different parts of the country have killed five people and wounded 25. A police officer says a parked car bomb ... 

• Shootings, bomb attacks kill 5 across Iraq

  Shootings and blasts killed five people in Iraq on Tuesday, including two local politicians in a town north of Baghdad who died when a bomb attached ... 

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  Syrian opposition coalition falls into disarray

  Syria's Western-backed opposition plunged into disarray on Sunday as its president resigned and its military leader refused to recognize a prime ... 

• Gunmen kill Sunni fighter, 2 sons in Iraq

  Iraqi authorities say the local leader of a militia opposed to al-Qaida and his two sons have been killed near a town north of capital. A police ... 

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  Al-Qaida in Iraq claims wave of attacks

  An al-Qaida in Iraq front group claimed responsibility Wednesday for bloody attacks that killed 65 people across the country a day earlier, ... 

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  Bombings in Iraq kill 65 a decade after invasion

  Insurgents sent a bloody message on the eve of the 10th anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion, carrying out a wave of bombings across the country ... 

• Deadliest attacks in Iraq since US troop pullout

  Here is a look at the deadliest attacks in Iraq since the withdrawal of U.S. troops on Dec. 18, 2011: — Mar. 18, 2013: A wave of bombings mainly ... 

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  AP PHOTOS: Scenes from Baghdad, 10 years on

  To the first-time visitor, Baghdad might seem like a normal city. Well, almost normal: Pockmarked buildings and pervasive checkpoints serve as a stark ... 

• Several attacks kill 9 people in Iraq

  A suicide attacker drove his explosives-laden car into a checkpoint in central Iraq on Monday, killing five people, and attacks elsewhere in the ... 

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  Saddam's specter lives on in Iraqi landmarks

  The soaring half domes of the Martyr Monument stand out against the drabness of eastern Baghdad, not far from where Saddam Hussein's feared eldest son ... 

• 2 car bombs kill 9 in southern Iraq

  Two car bombs went off Sunday in the Iraqi city of Basra, killing nine and wounding 24 in a rare attack in the Shiite-dominated south of the country.