Topic: Baghdad
A car bomb ripped through a funeral procession near a mosque in central Iraq on Friday evening, killing at least 10 people, part of nationwide violence that left 14 dead.The explosion occurred at around 5:30 pm (1430 GMT) outside the Nabi Ayub ...
Dozens gathered at Baghdad's biggest Sunni mosque on Monday for the funeral of one of at least 28 people, including a lawmaker, killed in a suicide blast that has been blamed on Al-Qaeda.The attack, the deadliest in Iraq in two weeks, came ...
Dozens gathered at Baghdad's biggest Sunni mosque on Monday for the funeral of one of at least 28 people, including a lawmaker, killed in a suicide blast there that has been blamed on Al-Qaeda.The attack, the worst in Iraq in two weeks, ...
An elderly bandage-swathed suicide bomber blew himself up in Baghdad's biggest Sunni mosque, killing an MP and at least 27 others in an attack that was blamed on Al-Qaeda on Monday.The blast was part of nationwide violence that left 35 dead on ...
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The toll from a suicide bombing at one of the main Sunni mosques in Iraq's capital rose to at least 24 killed and over 30 wounded, a hospital official said on Sunday."We have received 24 bodies and more than ...
BASRA (Reuters) - A series of suicide and car bombings struck cities across Iraq Thursday, killing at least 13 people and wounding dozens of others, security sources said.In the southern oil hub of Basra, a car driven by a suicide bomber exploded ...
Violence in central and north Iraq on Wednesday left five people dead and 22 wounded, security officials said, just two days after the country's bloodiest day in more than a year.In Wednesday's worst attack, two people were killed and seven wounded when ...
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two suicide bombers attacked an Iraqi counter-terrorism unit in Tikrit city on Monday, killing at least two policemen and wounding six in a failed attempt to free al Qaeda prisoners, a police official said.One attacker detonated his suicide vest ...
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The number of civilians killed by violence in Iraq rose to 159 in July from 155 in June, matching January with the highest toll so far for 2011, according to health ministry figures released Monday.Violence has dropped sharply since ...
Iraqi security forces have smashed an Al-Qaeda network allegedly responsible for more than 100 killings in Baghdad, an anti-terrorism official said on Sunday."Interior ministry forces dismantled (an) Al-Qaeda network that was responsible for more than 100 murders of policemen, soldiers, judges, officials ...