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 United Nations announced that over 700 people were killed in terror-related violence across Iraq this February with the capital Baghdad worst bearing the brunt of terrorist attacks.
Seven car bombs have gone off across the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, killing at least 13 people in seemingly coordinated terrorist attacks a day after three bombings in the capital’s heavily-fortified green zone killed 33 people.
Iraqi forces have thwarted an attempt by foreign-backed insurgents in Syria to infiltrate into the Iraqi territory.
A bomb has ripped through a crowd of worshippers as they left a mosque in Iraq after prayers marking the Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday, killing 11 people.
Insurgents have unleashed a new wave of attacks in Iraq, killing at least 56, seven of them from militants.
Five Iranian pilgrims have been martyred after a roadside bomb went off near a passenger bus close to Iraqi city of Samarra.
Four bombings in northern Iraq killed five people and wounded 69 on Tuesday, officials said, the latest in a spate of violence that has killed more than 370 people so far this month.
At least four Iranian pilgrims have been killed in a bombing that targeted a bus full of passengers near Iraqi city of Tikrit, Media reports say.