Iraq Bombing

Al-Qaida Linked Group Claims Responsibility For Baghdad Attacks

AP | QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | Posted 10.28.2009 | World


BAGHDAD AP - An al-Qaida linked group claimed responsibility for the twin suicide bombings in the heart of Baghdad that killed at least 155 people as ...

Bombs in Baghdad

James Denselow | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics


James Denselow

With a rerun of Afghan elections dominating the headlines, the road to January's Iraqi elections may prove equally bloody unless the Sunnis feel they are getting a fair slice of the power cake.

Iraq Bombing: Over 150 Victims Mourned, Amidst Fear Of More Attacks

AP | REBECCA SANTANA | Posted 10.27.2009 | World


BAGHDAD — Iraq's government made progress on a new election law that could ease tensions and pledged tighter security Monday after suicide bombi...

Series of car bombs kills 19 in western Iraq

AP | REBECCA SANTANA | Posted 10.11.2009 | World


BAGHDAD — A spate of car bombings killed 19 people Sunday in Iraq's western Anbar province, once a hotbed of insurgency that later become a show...

Truck Bomb Kills At Least 19 In Northern Iraq

AP | DAVID RISING | Posted 11.10.2009 | World


BAGHDAD — Kurdish lawmakers demanded the government step up security in northern Iraq after a suicide truck bomb flattened a neighborhood in a s...

Suicide bombings kill at least 17 outside Baghdad

AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 10.23.2009 | Home


BAGHDAD — Suicide attackers struck near a Shiite mosque north of Baghdad and a checkpoint west of the capital on Monday as bombings killed at le...

Iraq Bombings Ahead Of Shiite Funeral

AP | CHELSEA J. CARTER | Posted 09.27.2009 | World


BAGHDAD — A string of car bombs exploded Thursday in Baghdad as Iraqi forces tightened security around Shiite mosques, shrines and political par...

Iraq, Syria Recall Ambassadors In Deepening Rift Over Attacks

BBC NEWS | Posted 09.25.2009 | World


Iraq and Syria have both recalled their ambassadors in a deepening rift over claims Damascus was harbouring militants who bombed Baghdad....

Iraq: Double Suicide Bombing At Ayoub Cafe Filled WIth Young People Kills More Than 20

AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 09.13.2009 | World


BAGHDAD — A double suicide bombing devastated a cafe packed with young people in northwestern Iraq on Thursday, killing at least 21 people, offi...

Wave of blasts near mosques kills 29 in Iraq

AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 08.31.2009 | World


BAGHDAD — A string of bombings targeted Shiite worshippers in the Baghdad area during Friday prayers, killing at least 29 people in an apparentl...

Iraq Bombings Kill 8 In Capital, Northern Village

AP | SAMEER N. YACOUB | Posted 08.11.2009 | World


BAGHDAD — A car bomb exploded in an alley Saturday in a village in northern Iraq, killing at least four people, wounding others and destroying e...

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Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 07.11.2009 | Business


<i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

ComScore, which measures these things, put out a press release today that indicates that my brother, Bing the Search Engine, is off to a pretty good start.

Shiite Shrine Double Bombing Kills Scores In Baghdad

AP | CHELSEA J. CARTER | Posted 05.25.2009 | World


BAGHDAD — Two female suicide bombers hiding explosives in their purses struck worshippers streaming into Baghdad's most important Shiite shrine ...

Obama Went to Iraq and Visited... the Airport. Was it the Sandstorms or the Rising Shitstorm?

Jeremy Scahill | Posted 05.08.2009 | World


Jeremy Scahill

it is hard not to wonder about the "coincidence" of Obama's visit being confined to the airport and coming in the midst of a rising tide in violence in Iraq over the past several days.

Bombs Strike US Military and Iraqi Government Convoys Killing Five

AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 02.20.2009 | World


BAGHDAD — Two bombs struck separate U.S. military and Iraqi governmental convoys in Baghdad on Tuesday, killing five Iraqi civilians and woundin...

Iraqi Suicide Attack Kills At Least 23

AP | JIM HEINTZ | Posted 02.02.2009 | Politics


BAGHDAD — An explosives-strapped man slipped into a luncheon gathering at a tribal leader's home and blew himself up Friday, killing at least 23...

Car bombs in Iraq kill at least 25, wound 64

AP | CHELSEA J. CARTER | Posted 01.27.2009 | Politics


BAGHDAD — A pair of car bombs killed more than two dozen people on Saturday, shattering a recent period of calm and serving as a grim reminder t...

Iraq's Cabinet to vote on security pact with US

AP | HAMZA HENDAWI and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | Posted 12.16.2008 | Politics


BAGHDAD — Iraq's Cabinet will vote Sunday on a security pact with Washington that would keep U.S. forces in the country for another three years,...

15 dead in Baghdad blasts, violence rising

AP | SAMEER N. YACOUB | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics


BAGHDAD — Bombs exploded at a bus station and a small market in Baghdad, killing 15 people Tuesday in an increase in bloodshed in the Iraqi capi...

Bombings In Iraq Target Officials, 10 Killed

AP | HAMID AHMED | Posted 12.04.2008 | Home


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24 Killed, 45 Injured In Bombings And Shootings Across Iraq

Washington Post | Mary Beth Sheridan and Qais Mizher | Posted 11.10.2008 | Politics


A car bomb exploded in a market in southern Baghdad late Friday afternoon, killing at least 14 people and prompting an outburst of sectarian rioting, ...

Roadside bombs strike Iraq police convoy, kill 5

AP | VANESSA GERA | Posted 10.15.2008 | Politics


BAGHDAD — Three roadside bombs planted in succession struck a police convoy in one of Iraq's most dangerous provinces on Sunday, killing five po...

At least 18 killed in bombings, shootings in Iraq

AP | CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA | Posted 10.14.2008 | Politics


BAGHDAD — Gunmen on Saturday abducted and killed four employees of an Iraqi television station who were filming a program about the Islamic holy...

Bombers strike Iraq pilgrims for 3rd straight day

AP | SAMEER N. YACOUB | Posted 09.16.2008 | Politics


BAGHDAD — Bombers struck Shiite pilgrims Saturday for a third consecutive day, killing at least three people in the latest in a series of attack...

US military blames al-Qaida in Iraq for bombing

AP | SAMEER N. YACOUB | Posted 09.09.2008 | Politics


BAGHDAD — The U.S. military blamed al-Qaida in Iraq Saturday for a suicide car bombing in the northern Iraqi town of Tal Afar, while an Iraqi of...