Baghdad

Baghdad

• Police clash with Sunni worshippers in Baghdad

  Protesters clashed Friday with Iraqi police trying to prevent them from reaching the most venerated Sunni mosque in Baghdad, as members of their sect ... 

• 

  Attack on Iraqi Justice Ministry kills 24

  Attackers unleashed a carefully planned assault with car bombs and gunmen disguised as police on the Iraqi Justice Ministry on Thursday, killing at ... 

• Wounded Iranian dies in Iraq, says group in exile

  A spokesman says a member of an Iranian opposition group exiled in Iraq has died of injuries sustained in an attack last month on their camp near ... 

• 

  Al-Qaida says it killed 51 Syrian soldiers in Iraq

  Al-Qaida's Iraq branch claimed responsibility Monday for the deaths of 51 Syrian soldiers and nine Iraqis killed in a well-planned assault in western ... 

• Attacks in Iraq kill 12 people, officials say

  A suicide attacker drove his explosives-laden car on Monday into a police station in northern Iraq, killing five people, while attacks elsewhere in ... 

• Gunmen kill protest organizer in Iraq

  Iraqi officials say an anti-government protest organizer has been killed in a drive-by-shooting in the country's north. Police Lt. Col. Wisam Abdullah ... 

• Iraqi security forces surround protest site

  Iraqi authorities deployed security forces around the main rallying point for Sunni protests in western Iraq overnight and warned on Saturday that the ... 

• Parliament approves national budget for Iraq

  Iraq's parliament approved a $118.6 billion national budget on Thursday after months of wrangling over how much should be allocated to foreign oil ... 

• 

  New Chaldean patriarch enthroned in Iraq

  Iraq's Chaldean Catholic Church enthroned a new patriarch during a ceremonial mass Wednesday that was held amid tight security in Baghdad. The mass ... 

• Anti-al-Qaida leader killed in Iraq shooting

  A local leader of anti-al-Qaida militiamen was shot dead Tuesday in western Baghdad, one of eight people killed in violence in different parts of ... 

• 

  48 Syrian soldiers killed in Iraq ambush

  Dozens of Syrian soldiers who had crossed into Iraq for refuge were ambushed Monday with bombs, gunfire and rocket-propelled grenades in an attack ... 

• Officials: Separate attacks in Iraq kill 4

  Three separate attacks in Shiite-dominated areas on Sunday in central Iraq have killed at least four people and wounded 14, officials said. 

• 

  Iraqi Sunni official announces resignation

  Iraq's Sunni finance minister drew cheers from anti-government protesters Friday when he announced he will resign from the government, further ... 

• 

  Iraqi divers retrieve bodies after boat accident

  Divers worked through the night and into Friday in murky waters to recover bodies from a partially sunken floating restaurant in Baghdad after an ... 

• Restaurant boat sinks in Baghdad; 8 reported dead

  A crowded floating restaurant loaded with dozens of guests sank in the Tigris River in central Baghdad late Thursday, leaving at least eight people ... 

• 

  Series of explosions in Iraq kill 22

  A series of bombings struck Baghdad and towns south of the Iraqi capital on Thursday, killing at least 22 and wounding dozens in areas that are home ... 

• 

  AP INTERVIEW: Iraq PM warns Syria war could spread

  Iraq's prime minister warned Wednesday that a victory for rebels in the Syrian civil war would create a new extremist haven and destabilize the wider ... 

• Iraq resumes flights to Kuwait after 22-year halt

  An Iraqi Airways flight landed in Kuwait on Wednesday for the first time since Saddam Hussein's 1990 invasion of the tiny emirate as the neighboring ... 

• 

  Iran opposition group urges more security in Iraq

  An Iranian opposition group urged the U.N. refugee agency Wednesday to provide better protection for its members in Iraq following a mortar attack on ... 

• Shiite militant threatens Iranian exiles in Iraq

  The head of a new Shiite militant group in Iraq on Tuesday threatened to carry out more attacks on a camp for Iranian exiles that was struck by dozens ... 

• Iraq, Kuwait to resume flights after 22-year halt

  Iraq's Transportation Ministry says that country's airline will resume commercial flights to Kuwait for the first time since Saddam Hussein's forces ... 

• 

  Return of sectarian threats in Iraq raises alarm

  The fliers began turning up at Sunni households in the Iraqi capital's Jihad neighborhood last week bearing a chilling message: Get out now or face ... 

• Iraq gunmen kill 7 Sunni fighters, officials say

  Attackers disguised in military uniforms killed seven anti-al-Qaida militiamen in Iraq early on Friday as anti-government protests once again raged ...