An al-Qaida spin-off group has claimed a dual bombing at a Shiite political rally in Baghdad on Friday, according to a statement posted on militant group’s forums, just days before national elections.
A series of explosions killed at least 28 people and injured dozens at a Shi'ite political party's rally in Iraq's capital ahead of the country's parliamentary election on Friday, police and medical sources said.
Attacks in central Iraq, including two suicide car bombings aimed at checkpoints, killed 16 people on Monday, security and medical officials said.
Attacks in Iraq, including a suicide bombing at a university in north Baghdad, has killed at least nine civilians and wounded several others.
The leader of a militant group once affiliated to al-Qaeda was shot dead in an ambush in northern Iraq, security officials said Friday, as the country prepares for parliamentary elections later this month.
A public inquiry in the UK has heard that British soldiers tortured Iraqi civilians and committed other crimes during operations in southern Iraq in 2004.
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani says the nuclear deal between Tehran and the P5+1 group shows that the world has recognized the Islamic Republic’s right to peaceful nuclear technology.
The Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union has sealed off a Syrian border crossing with Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region, an Iraqi border official has said.
A suicide bomber has detonated an explosives-rigged vehicle at a checkpoint in northern Iraq on Sunday, killing seven police, and gunmen have shot dead three people, officials say.
The Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations in Iraq Nikolai Mladenov said the money looted from Iraq between 2001 and 2010 exceeded 65 billion dollars, referring to the conclusion of the latest study made by the International Monetary Fund.