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Wave Of Bombings Leaves Dozens Dead In Iraq

AP | ADAM SCHRECK | Posted 06.11.2013 | World

BAGHDAD — A wave of car bombings rocked central and northern Iraq on Monday, killing at least 57 people and extending the deadliest eruption of ...

Bloody Day In Iraq Leaves At Least 76 Dead

AP | SAMEER N. YACOUB | Posted 05.18.2013 | World

BAGHDAD — Bombs ripped through Sunni areas in Baghdad and surrounding areas Friday, killing at least 76 people in the deadliest day in Iraq in m...

Bombing Outside Mosque Kills At Least 43 In Iraq

Reuters | Posted 05.17.2013 | World

BAQUBA, Iraq, May 17 (Reuters) - Two bombs exploded outside a Sunni Muslim mosque the Iraqi city of Baquba as worshippers left after Friday prayer...

Eline Gordts

Why Violence In Iraq Made Last Month The Deadliest In Half A Decade

HuffingtonPost.com | Eline Gordts | Posted 05.03.2013 | World

With more than 700 people killed in just 30 days, April was the deadliest month in Iraq in five years. According to the United Nations Mission in the ...

Bombings Mar Start Of Iraq's First Vote Since U.S. Withdrawal

Reuters | Posted 04.20.2013 | World

By Patrick Markey BAGHDAD, April 20 (Reuters) - A dozen small bombs exploded and mortar rounds landed near polling centres in Iraq on ...

Wave Of Bombings Kills 17 Across Iraq

AP | SINAN SALAHEDDIN | Posted 11.14.2012 | World

BAGHDAD -- Insurgents unleashed a new wave of bombings across Iraq early Wednesday targeting security forces and civilians, and killing 17 people and ...

Blistering String Of Attacks Kills More Than 90

AP | ADAM SCHRECK | Posted 10.17.2012 | World

BAGHDAD — Iraqi officials said Friday that a blistering string of attacks across the country the previous day killed at least 93 people and woun...

Blasts And Shootings Kill At Least 59 In Iraq

AP | SINAN SALAHEDDIN and ADAM SCHRECK | Posted 10.16.2012 | World

BAGHDAD — Insurgents in Iraq unleashed a relentless wave of attacks from before dawn until late at night Thursday, killing 59 people and woundin...

Blasts Kill At Least 10 In Iraq

AP | ADAM SCHRECK | Posted 10.15.2012 | World

BAGHDAD — Three bomb blasts shortly before sunset Wednesday killed 10 people north of Baghdad in the latest spasm of violence to grip Iraq. The...

String Of Attacks Leaves At Least 10 Dead In Iraq

AP | SAMEER N. YACOUB | Posted 08.10.2012 | World

BAGHDAD -- A string of insurgent attacks, including a car bomb targeting a Shiite mosque, killed 10 people in Iraq on Friday, officials said. The str...

Militants Down Iraqi Army Helicopter

AP | SINAN SALAHEDDIN | Posted 09.25.2012 | World

BAGHDAD — Militants downed an Iraqi army helicopter on Thursday in clashes that have killed at least 19 people including 11 policemen, a regiona...

Iraq After The Americans

Posted 07.26.2012 | World

Nine years after his first visit to Baghdad, Al Jazeera reporter Sebastian Walker returns to Iraq to find out what future lies ahead for the country a...

Suicide Bomber Kills 7 Of His Own Family In Iraq

AP | SAMEER N. YACOUB | Posted 09.06.2012 | World

BAGHDAD -- A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-rigged belt at a gathering of his own family in western Iraq, killing his pro-government cousin an...

Deadly Blasts Target Market, Police Station

AP | QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | Posted 08.29.2012 | World

BAGHDAD — Three bombs planted on motorcycles went off in quick succession near a market and police station in central Iraqi town Friday, killing...

Baghdad Bombs Kill 11 People, Including 4 Teenagers

AP | SAMEER N. YACOUB | Posted 08.27.2012 | World

BAGHDAD -- Bombs targeting the homes of Shiite cleric and a member of a Sunni militia that fights al-Qaida killed at least 11 people, including four t...

Gunmen Open Fire On Bus

AP | SAMEER N. YACOUB | Posted 07.23.2012 | World

BAGHDAD — A pair of attacks killed five people in Iraq on Wednesday, including three Lebanese Shiite pilgrims, officials said. A bus carrying L...

Double Bombing Kills At Least 12

AP | MAZIN YAHYA | Posted 05.07.2012 | World

BAGHDAD — Two bombs that exploded in swift succession killed 14 people Wednesday near a crowded restaurant in a mid-sized city in Iraq's north, ...

String Of Bombings Brings Death Toll In Iraq To 150 In 2012

AP | BUSHRA JUHI | Posted 03.17.2012 | World

BAGHDAD — Car bombs ripped through two Iraqi cities on Monday, killing at least 11 people, Iraq officials said, in the latest attacks targeting ...

New Wave Of Bombs Kills At Least 17 In Iraq

AP | ADAM SCHRECK and YAHYA BARZANJI | Posted 03.10.2012 | World

BAGHDAD — Three car bombs exploded Monday evening in the Iraqi capital and killed at least 17 people, authorities said. At least one appeared to...

Slew Of Attacks Kill At Least 25 In Iraq

AP | REBECCA SANTANA | Posted 12.12.2011 | World

BAGHDAD — Attacks aimed at Iraqi police, including two in which assailants slammed explosives-packed cars into police stations, killed 25 people...

US reviewing Iraq troop pullout pace

AP | LARA JAKES | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

BAGHDAD — American commanders, worried about increased violence in the wake of Iraq's inconclusive elections, are now reconsidering the pace of ...

US Troops To Withdraw From Iraq: Celebrations Begin In Baghdad

AP | KIM GAMEL and PATRICK QUINN | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

BAGHDAD -- (AP) Iraqi forces assumed formal control of Baghdad and other cities Tuesday after American troops handed over security in urban areas in a...

Bomb Kills 7 In Southwest Baghdad

AP | PATRICK QUINN | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

BAGHDAD — The bombing of a Baghdad bus station Thursday pushed the death toll from a weeklong series of blasts near Shiite targets to about 200,...

Defense Dept. To Fund Pro-American Publicity In The Iraqi Media

Washington Post | Karen DeYoung and Walter Pincus | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

The Defense Department will pay private U.S. contractors in Iraq up to $300 million over the next three years to produce news stories, entertainment p...