A parked car rigged with explosives blew up Saturday in Najaf, killing 3 people and wounding 54 on the eve of Iraq‘s parliamentary elections. According to an Interior Ministry official, two of those who died were Iranians. The wounded were composed of 17 Iraqis and 37 Iranians. The victims were near the Imam Ali Holy [...]
A double suicide bomb attack in the western city of Ramadi has killed at least 20 people and wounded more than 30 others, Iraqi police said. Wednesday’s bombings appeared to target senior officials of Iraq’s Anbar province, of which Ramadi is the capital, police added. The attack began with a suicide car bombing on a [...]
A long-awaited election law that the Iraqi government said will allow national elections to take place in January was passed on Sunday by the parliament. Officials had hoped to hold elections January 16, but Iraq’s election commission said Sunday the elections will take place later than that–but before January 31, the constitutional deadline. The passage [...]
The United States is pressuring the “highest levels of the Kurdish leadership” to accept a compromise that would dictate how national elections would be held in January, a Kurdish member of Iraq’s parliament said Monday. The United States urged the Kurdish majority in the northern oil-rich province of Kirkuk to agree to a proposal that [...]
The Interior Ministry said on Sunday that bombings in central and western Iraq killed at least five people and wounded 53 others. South of Baghdad in the predominantly Shiite town of Mussayyab, a motorcycle rigged with explosives blew up. At least five people died in the marketplace bombing. According to the ministry, another 37 were [...]
A Pentagon spokesman said Saturday that more than 3,000 US troops scheduled to deploy to Iraq won’t go after all, as the military tries to draw down troop levels in the war-torn country. Lt. Col. Eric Butterbaugh said that the 1st Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division will not replace a North Carolina National [...]
Dozens were dead and many more were wounded after for car bombs exploded in different parts of Iraq Monday. At least 23 people were killed and 100 wounded when two truck bombs exploded in a Shia village near the northern city of Mosul. In Baghdad, two car bombs went off near construction sites, killing more [...]
Four men who allegedly planned to launch suicide attacks on an army base have been arrested in Melbourne Tuesday. According to senior police officers, the suspects have links to a Somali Islamist group with ties to al-Qaeda. The plot was a “sober reminder” that Australia is still under threat from extremist groups enraged that the [...]
