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  • Car bombs exploded in three mainly Shi’ite districts, killing 15 people, the sources said, hours after a suicide car bombing killed seven people in another area of the capital. Picture: AFP.

    Baghdad: Car bombs kill 22

    Car bombs exploded in three mainly Shi’ite districts, killing 22, police and medics said.

    2900 days ago
  • FILE: Baghdad said it wanted US air strikes on insurgents led by fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq. Picture: AFP.

    Iraq asks US for backing to counter rebels

    Baghdad said it wanted US air strikes on insurgents led by fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq.

    2930 days ago
  • FILE: Nuri al-Maliki has appealed to bitter Sunni critics for national unity. Picture: AFP.

    Iraq PM Maliki appeals for unity

    Nuri al-Maliki has appealed to bitter Sunni critics for national unity.

    2931 days ago
  • FILE: Iraqi army troops chant slogans against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) as they recruit volunteers to join the fight against a major offensive by the jihadist group in northern Iraq, outside a recruiting centre in the capital Baghdad on 13 June 2014. Picture: AFP.

    Iraq insurgent advance spreads to Northwest

    Sunni militants launched a dawn raid on a town close to the Syrian border.

    2934 days ago
  • Insurgents overran the city of Tikrit on Wednesday and closed in on the biggest oil refinery in the country. Picture: AFP

    Iraqi rebels seize Saddam's hometown

    Insurgence overran the city of Tikrit on Wednesday and closed in on the biggest oil refinery in the country.

    2937 days ago
  • FILE IMAGE: Bloodshed remains below the levels seen in 2006 and 2007 when sectarian Shi’ite-Sunni killings reached their peak, but last year was Iraq’s deadliest since violence began to ease in 2008.

    Nearly 800 killed in Iraq in May

    Nearly 800 people were killed in violence across Iraq in May the UN said on Sunday.

    2948 days ago
  • FILE: Iraqis gather at the scene of an explosion in the capital Baghdad. Picture: AFP.

    Al-Qaeda bursts back to life in Iraq

    Buoyed by al-Qaeda gains in Syria, fighters have taken control of Anbar’s two main cities.

    3093 days ago
  • Iraqi security secures the area of a car bomb on March 16, 2013. Picture: AFP

    Sectarian attacks leave 59 dead in Iraq

    The sectarian violence in Iraq has claimed more than 6,000 lives this year alone

    3174 days ago
  • Two suicide bombers targeted Shi'ite Muslims in Iraq on Saturday, killing 60 people. Picture: AFP

    Suicide bombers kill 60 in Iraq

    Two suicide bombers targeted Shi'ite Muslims in Iraq on Saturday, killing 60 people.

    3186 days ago
  • Iraqi security secure the area of a car bomb on March 16, 2013, in the northern city of Kirkuk, which injured some 18 people. Picture: AFP/ MARWAN IBRAHIM

    A string of car bombs kill 60 in Iraq

    The car bomb attacks in busy streets and crowded markets underscore deteriorating security in Iraq.

    3255 days ago
  • FILE: Free Syrian Army opposition fighters battle government security forces during the siege of the Shaar district police station in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. Picture: AFP.

    Syria rebels kill 60

    Sunni Muslim insurgents have killed about 60 Shi'ite Muslims in a rebel-held eastern Syrian town.

    3302 days ago
  • FILE: A Lebanese supporter of the March 14 movement, which opposes the Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad, protests in Beirut on 21 October 2012. Picture: AFP/Joseph Eid

    Syrian rebels kill dozens of Shi'ites

    Syrian rebels attacked civilians and intercepted Assad’s plan to recruit more fighters for his campaign.

    3302 days ago
  • An Iraqi soldier inspects the site of a blast in a car park at the rear gate of the state-owned North Oil Company, about 15 kms from the northern city of Kirkuk, on 9 September, 2012. Picture: AFP.

    At least 10 dead in Baghdad blasts

    The sectarian conflict in Iraq surges as another car bomb kills 10 people, several others wounded.

    3315 days ago
  • At least 43 worshippers lost their lives following bomb blasts outside an Iraqi mosque.

    Blasts kill 43 at Iraq mosque

    Local television showed images of bodies, pools of blood and the victims' scattered shoes.

    3328 days ago
  • Iraqi security secure the area of a car bomb in the northern city of Kirkuk. Picture: AFP/ MARWAN IBRAHIM

    Bombs at five Iraqi Shi'ite mosques kill 19

    Iraq is still grappling with political turmoil and Sunni Islamist insurgents linked to al Qaeda.

    3376 days ago
  • Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Picture: AFP

    Iraqi Shi'ite militants fight for Syria's Assad

    Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s troops have received a boost from Iraq Shi’ite militants.

    3541 days ago
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    Iraq blasts target Shi'ite mosques

    Blasts in Iraq, targeted at Shi’ite mosques, have killed eight people on Friday.

    3580 days ago
  • Justice in action. Picture: EWN

    Bahrain court upholds sentences on uprising leaders

    The Bahraini civilian court upholds the jail sentences against last year’s pro-democracy uprising leaders.

    3582 days ago
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