Topic: Nouri al-Maliki

Police chief among 10 officers killed in Iraq

A northern Iraqi police chief and nine other officers were killed on Tuesday in a series of roadside bomb attacks targeting patrols near the restive oil hub city of Kirkuk, officials said.The blasts followed a spate of bombings on Monday that left ...

Ten killed in car bomb attacks across Iraq

Ten people were killed in attacks across Iraq on Monday, eight of them in a suicide car bomb on a security checkpoint in the western city of Ramadi, a former Al-Qaeda stronghold, police said.The predominantly Sunni Arab city, capital of Anbar province, ...

Two children among 12 killed in Iraq attacks

Twelve people including two children were killed across Iraq on Monday, eight of them in a suicide car bomb on a security checkpoint in Ramadi, a former Al-Qaeda stronghold in the west of the country.Ramadi, a predominantly Sunni Arab city and capital ...

Iraq says 18 terror groups dismantled in August

Iraq's anti-terrorist squad broke up 18 insurgent networks and made 66 arrests last month, including members of Al-Qaeda, a high-ranking official told reporters in Baghdad on Sunday. "The anti-terrorist force dismantled 18 networks across Iraq," said the official, who wore a black ...

Iraq's Maliki pledges victory amid criticism

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki assured Iraq on Saturday that its forces would defeat terrorism despite the year's deadliest bombings, ignoring remarks from a minister that the government had fallen into a false sense of security.It was Maliki's first public ...
Iraq arrested 11 senior security officers on Thursday as public anger mounted after the government admitted that negligence at checkpoints led to 95 people being killed in two massive truck bombings.The police, army and intelligence chiefs detained are being questioned over security ...

Suicide truck bomb kills 34 in northern Iraq

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide truck bomb killed at least 34 people leaving a mosque on Saturday, hours after Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki urged Iraqis not to lose faith if a U.S. military pullback resulted in more insurgent attacks.Almost all U.S. soldiers ...

PM warns of worse to come after Iraq bombing

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki warned on Thursday that attacks could increase in the coming weeks ahead of the US troop pullout from urban areas, after a deadly car bomb hit the south of the country.Police arrested two men, including an Al-Qaeda ...

Maliki warns of worse to come after Iraq bombing

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Thursday warned that attacks could increase in the coming weeks ahead of the US troop pullout from urban areas, after a deadly car bomb hit the south of the country.Police arrested two men, including an Al-Qaeda ...

Iraq PM warns of further attacks

Iraqi police on Thursday arrested two men, including an Al-Qaeda member, over a car bombing in the south of the country as Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki warned attacks could worsen in the coming weeks.Wednesday's blast in a market in Batha, a town ...