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Gunmen kill 10 Iraqi security forces in 2 attacks
Gunmen killed 10 people in Iraq, including five soldiers near the main Sunni protest camp west of Baghdad, the latest in a wave of violence that has ...
Group tied to old guard could gain in Iraq unrest
As clashes this week raise fears of a destabilizing new eruption of sectarian fighting in Iraq, a shadowy militant group linked to the top fugitive ...
Iraqi soldiers retake control of Sunni town
Iraqi soldiers backed by tanks retook control of a Sunni town north of Baghdad on Friday after gunmen withdrew without a fight, although violence ...
Iraq fears rise as clashes spread to northern city
Clashes spread to a key northern city and gunmen took over a town elsewhere in Iraq on Thursday, raising the death toll from three days of violence ...
Clashes suggest Sunni anger boiling over in Iraq
With Sunni gunmen beginning to confront the Shiite-led government's security forces head-on in northern and western Iraq, fears are growing fast of ...
Wife: American in Iraqi prison is on hunger strike
In Baghdad's maximum-security Karkh prison, Shawki Omar is triply damned, his supporters say. He's a Sunni prisoner in a Shiite-dominated jail.
Iraq on edge after deadly raid on protest camp
Security forces stormed a Sunni protest camp in northern Iraq on Tuesday, sparking deadly clashes in several towns and sharply intensifying rage at ...
Iraq vet pleads guilty to killing fellow soldiers
As family members of his victims looked on, Army Sgt. John Russell described on Monday how in 2009 he rampaged at a mental health clinic in Baghdad ...
Iraq Sunnis stage day of civil disobedience
Many of Iraq's Sunni Muslim minority held a day of civil disobedience on Monday to protest what they see as discrimination by the Shiite-led ...
Iraqis see some irregularities in provincial vote
Iraqi election monitors on Sunday reported multiple irregularities in the country's first provincial vote since U.S. troops left, but were unclear as ...
Iraqis go to polls for first time since US pullout
Iraq carried out its first election since the U.S. military withdrawal without major bloodshed Saturday in a major test for Iraqi security forces as ...
Attacks kill 9 worshippers in Iraq
Mortar shells and bombs targeted worshippers shortly after noon prayers on Friday at two mosques north of Baghdad, killing nine people and wounding ...
Officials: Suicide attack kills 26 in Iraq
A suicide bomber detonated explosives at a Baghdad cafe crowded with young people late Thursday, killing at least 26 and wounding dozens ahead of ...
Suicide attacks kills 22 in Iraq
Iraqi authorities say a suicide bombing in a Baghdad cafe has killed 22 people and wounded 35 others. Iraqi police said that the deadly attack took ...
Iraq executes 21 men convicted of terrorism
Iraq has executed 21 prisoners convicted on terrorism charges and links to al-Qaida, the Justice Ministry said Wednesday, setting off fresh criticism ...
Boston attacks are reminder of violence elsewhere
The blasts that struck the Boston Marathon on Monday were shocking not only for their brazenness and the lives they shattered, but also because ...
Officials: Car bombs in Iraq kill 9 people
Officials say two car bombings in Iraq have killed nine people and wounded 27. Police officials say in the larger of the two attacks, a car bomb ...
Iraq attacks kill 55 less than a week before vote
Insurgents in Iraq deployed a series of car bombs as part of highly coordinated attacks that cut across a wide swath of the country Monday, killing ...
Attacks kill 10 people in Iraq
A series of attacks in Iraq on Sunday killed 10 people, including a Sunni candidate running in the upcoming provincial elections. The attacks against ...
Iraq reports searching Syrian plane; no arms found
An Iraqi aviation official says authorities ordered a Damascus-bound Syrian plane transiting Iraqi airspace to land for inspection, but that no ...
Iraqis prepare for first vote since US withdrawal
Even the dead are not spared the campaigning for Iraq's upcoming local elections. Brightly colored placards blanket major streets and hang around the ...
Bombs hit Iraq mosque after prayers, killing 11
A pair of bombs struck in quick succession outside a Sunni mosque north of Baghdad on Friday, killing at least 11 people and wounding more than 30.
Iraq national museum long way from public opening
In Iraq's national museum, home to some of the world's most precious artifacts of ancient Mesopotamia, a caption beside a skeleton simply reads in ...
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 ...
10-year anniversary of Baghdad fall to US forces
Ten years ago, a statue fell in Baghdad's Firdous Square. Joyful Iraqis helped by an American tank retriever pulled down their longtime dictator, cast ...