Iraq Suicide Bombing

Double Bombing Kills At Least 12

AP | MAZIN YAHYA | Posted 05.07.2012

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, ...

Suicide Car Bombing Kills 19 Near Baghdad

AP | QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | Posted 01.27.2012

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA -- The Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) - A suicide bomber slammed a car packed with explosives into the gate of a prison north ...

Day After Major Suicide Bombing, Twin Bombings Kill Another 17 In Sadr City

AP | SAMEER N. YACOUB | Posted 12.13.2011

BAGHDAD — Two explosions in a Shiite neighborhood of eastern Baghdad killed 17 people and wounded around 50 others Thursday night, Iraqi officia...

Suicide Bomb Kills Dozens In Iraqi Mosque

AP | LARA JAKES | Posted 10.28.2011

By LARA JAKES, Associated Press BAGHDAD -- A suicide bomber blew himself up inside Baghdad's largest Sunni mosque Sunday night, killing 29 people d...

Suicide Bomber Kills 8 At Iraqi Mosque

AP | REBECCA SANTANA | Posted 06.28.2011

BAGHDAD — A suicide bomber disguised as a worshipper blew himself up inside a Shiite mosque north of Baghdad Thursday and killed eight people, a...

Suicide Bombs Kill 33 In Iraq

AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 05.25.2011

BAGHDAD — Suicide bombers in a crowded Baghdad commercial district and Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit killed as many as 33 people Sunday as...

Baghdad Suicide Bombings Target Embassies, Kill Dozens

AP | ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | Posted 05.25.2011

BAGHDAD — Suicide attackers detonated three car bombs in quick succession near foreign embassies in Baghdad on Sunday, killing more than 40 peop...

Iraq Suicide Bomb Kills 13 In Attack On Government Building In Anbar Province

AP | SAAD ABDUL-KADIR | Posted 05.25.2011

BAGHDAD — A suicide car bomb exploded Thursday outside the gate of the main government compound in the capital of Iraq's Anbar province, killing...

Bombs in Baghdad

James Denselow | Posted 05.25.2011

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.

Terrence Barnich: State Department Official Among 3 Americans Killed In Iraq

AP | ROBERT H. REID | Posted 05.25.2011

BAGHDAD — A roadside bomb blasted a U.S. convoy west of Baghdad, killing three Americans, including a top reconstruction official who once heade...

The Source

Nick McDonell | Posted 05.25.2011

Nick McDonell

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.

Iraqi Bombings Spark Fear Of Insurgent Push

AP | BRIAN MURPHY | Posted 05.25.2011

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...

Two Suicide Bomb Attacks Kill 78 in Iraq

AP | BRIAN MURPHY | Posted 05.25.2011

BAGHDAD — Suicide bomb blasts tore through crowds waiting for food aid in central Baghdad and inside a roadside restaurant filled with Iranian p...

Iraqi Child Suicide Bombers In Training Arrested: Iraqi Forces

UPI | Posted 05.25.2011

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....

Suicide Attack On Iraq Tribal Leaders Kills More Than 30

AP | ROBERT H. REID | Posted 05.25.2011

BAGHDAD — A suicide bomber struck Sunni and Shiite tribal leaders touring an outdoor market after a reconciliation meeting in a Baghdad suburb T...

(Female) Suicide Bombers

Courtney E. Martin | Posted 05.25.2011

Courtney E. Martin

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.

Iraq Bombings Kill Scores, Wound Hundreds in Baghdad, Kirkuk

AP | SELCAN HACAOGLU | Posted 05.25.2011

BAGHDAD — Female suicide bombers struck a Shiite pilgrimage in Baghdad and a Kurdish protest rally in northern Iraq on Monday, killing at least ...

Ex-Guantanamo Detainee Joined Iraq Suicide Bombing

Washington Post | Josh White | Posted 05.25.2011

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...

Former Guantanamo Detainee Takes Part In Iraq Suicide Bombing

Washington Post | Josh White | Posted 05.25.2011

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...

5 US Soldiers Killed in Baghdad Bombing

AP | BRADLEY BROOKS | Posted 05.25.2011

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...

Iraq Violence Claims Over 40 Lives

Reuters | Paul Tait | Posted 05.25.2011

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 ...

Charges Dropped Against Iraqi Officials

AP | SAMEER N. YACOUB | Posted 05.25.2011

BAGHDAD — An Iraqi court dropped charges Monday against two former Health Ministry officials accused of allowing Shiite death squads to use ambu...

Suicide Bomber Kills 18 North of Baghdad

AP | HAMZA HENDAWI | Posted 05.25.2011

BAGHDAD — A suicide bomber apparently targeting a senior security official blew himself up inside a funeral tent Monday, killing 18 people in th...

Separate Iraq Bombings Kill At Least 34, Wound Dozens

AP | HAMID AHMED | Posted 05.25.2011

Two separate suicide attacks, including one apparently targeting workers in a northern oil hub, killed at least 34 people on Tuesday, shattering more ...