Bombs in Baghdad
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.
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.
AP | ROBERT H. REID | Posted 06.26.2009 | World
BAGHDAD — A roadside bomb blasted a U.S. convoy west of Baghdad, killing three Americans, including a top reconstruction official who once heade...
Nick McDonell | Posted 05.30.2009 | World
War has many definitions in Iraq. This is why it is possible to hear that the war is winding down, and then wake up to the news that 150 Iraqis were killed in coordinated suicide attacks across Baghdad.
AP | BRIAN MURPHY | Posted 05.25.2009 | World
BAGHDAD — It's been a season of jarring flashbacks in Iraq: a spate of major suicide bombings, including more than 145 dead over two days of blo...
AP | BRIAN MURPHY | Posted 05.24.2009 | World
BAGHDAD — Suicide bomb blasts tore through crowds waiting for food aid in central Baghdad and inside a roadside restaurant filled with Iranian p...
UPI | Posted 05.22.2009 | World
Iraqi forces arrested four children, all under 14, who are allegedly linked to al-Qaida and training to become suicide bombers, an Iraqi general said....
AP | ROBERT H. REID | Posted 04.10.2009 | World
BAGHDAD — A suicide bomber struck Sunni and Shiite tribal leaders touring an outdoor market after a reconciliation meeting in a Baghdad suburb T...
Courtney E. Martin | Posted 08.12.2008 | Politics
Since 2003 Iraq has experienced over 50 suicide bombings carried out by women. It is no longer justifiable for the media to act aghast when another woman turns up with blood on her hands.
AP | SELCAN HACAOGLU | Posted 08.05.2008 | Politics
BAGHDAD — Female suicide bombers struck a Shiite pilgrimage in Baghdad and a Kurdish protest rally in northern Iraq on Monday, killing at least ...
Washington Post | Josh White | Posted 05.16.2008 | Politics
A Kuwaiti man who complained about maltreatment during a three-year stay in the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was involved in a dea...
Washington Post | Josh White | Posted 05.16.2008 | Politics
A Kuwaiti man who complained about maltreatment during a three-year stay in the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was involved in a dea...
Reuters | Paul Tait | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
At least 42 people were killed in violence across Iraq on Tuesday, including 14 mourners from one family when a roadside bomb hit a bus in a southern ...
AP | BRADLEY BROOKS | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
BAGHDAD — A suicide bomber killed five U.S. soldiers as they chatted with shop owners while on a foot patrol in central Baghdad on Monday, the d...
AP | SAMEER N. YACOUB | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
BAGHDAD — An Iraqi court dropped charges Monday against two former Health Ministry officials accused of allowing Shiite death squads to use ambu...
AP | HAMZA HENDAWI | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
BAGHDAD — A suicide bomber apparently targeting a senior security official blew himself up inside a funeral tent Monday, killing 18 people in th...
AP | HAMID AHMED | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
Two separate suicide attacks, including one apparently targeting workers in a northern oil hub, killed at least 34 people on Tuesday, shattering more ...
James Denselow | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics