Iraq News

(Updates death toll, re-writes) BAGHDAD, June 18 (Reuters) - Two coordinated suicide bombings at a Shi'ite Muslim mosque in Baghdad killed at least 29 worshippers at noon prayers on Tuesday, medics said. The first bomber detonated his charge at a checkpoint about 100 metres (yards) away from the mosque in al-Qahira district …

Twin suicide bombings killed 31 people after midday prayers at a Shiite Muslim religious centre in Baghdad on Tuesday, the latest in violence sparking fears of a revival of full-blown sectarian bloodshed.

Baghdad, June 18 (IANS) At least 32 people were killed and over 50 injured in twin suicide bomb attacks at a mosque in the Iraqi capital, an interior ministry official said.

BAGHDAD, June 18 (Reuters) - The death toll from two apparently coordinated suicide bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital rose to 29, medics said on Tuesday. The first bomber detonated his charge at a checkpoint 100 metres (yards) from a Shi'ite Muslim mosque in the al-Qahira district of northern Baghdad. Minutes later a second …

Baghdad, June 18 (IANS) At least 15 people were killed and 30 others wounded in a suicide bomb attack at a Shia mosque in the Iraqi capital Tuesday, an interior ministry official said.

A suicide bomber blew himself up on Tuesday at a Shiite Muslim religious hall in north Baghdad, killing at least 15 people, security officials said, the latest in a surge in nationwide violence.

BAGHDAD, June 18 (Reuters) - A suicide bomber blew himself up inside a Shi'ite mosque in the Iraqi capital on Tuesday, killing at least seven worshippers, police said. More than 20 people were wounded in the attack in the al-Qahira district of northern Baghdad. (Reporting by Kareem Raheem; Writing by Isabel Coles; Editing …

In the Arab world, there were four historic superpowers: Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Syria. These four states are split predominantly along two axes, namely the Islamic world and the Arab world. As for Egypt, it had a third sphere of influence in Africa.Iraq tried to outpace Saudi Arabia in the Gulf, while Damascus and …

EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton landed in Baghdad on Monday for talks with Iraqi officials, with Iran's disputed nuclear programme and the bloody conflict in Syria high on the agenda.

Bombings near Baghdad killed at least 10 people Monday in a second day of deadly violence that, coupled with a prolonged political stalemate, has spurred fears of a revival of full-blown sectarian war.

(Adds minibus bomb, updates death toll) BAGHDAD, June 17 (Reuters) - At least 12 people were killed in three bomb attacks in Iraq on Monday, police and medics said. Concerns of a descent into full-blown conflict have been mounting in recent months as Iraq's delicate intercommunal balance comes under growing strain from …

BAGHDAD, June 17 (Reuters) - A bomb in a restaurant killed seven people in Iraq on Monday and a suicide bomber dressed in police uniform killed a further three, police and medics said. The restaurant bomb was in Taji, 20km (12 miles) north of the capital and the suicide bomber struck in the city of Falluja, 50km west of …

Baghdad, June 17 (IANS) A series of car bombings killed 30 people in different cities of Iraq, reported BBC citing the police and medics Sunday.

A wave of car bombs in several cities south of Baghdad on Sunday killed at least 14 people, officials said, as Iraq grapples with a surge in violence that has sparked fears of all-out sectarian war.

(Adds comment by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry) * Two MEK members and one Iraqi killed * MEK blames Iran, says Iraq complicit * UN envoy condemns attack (Adds U.S. comment, paragraph 11) BAGHDAD, June 15 (Reuters) - A mortar attack on an Iranian dissident camp killed three people in Baghdad on Saturday, police sources …

For over a year now, extremist groups have been urging Muslim youth to join the war in Syria. They succeed in prompting hundreds, if not thousands, of Muslim youth from different nationalities to join their cause.The latest development is the news that this figure is on the rise. The number of jihadists in Syria will be …

RIYADH, June 15 (Reuters) - An audio recording attributed to the head of al Qaeda in Iraq suggests he has rebuffed efforts by the group's global leader Ayman al-Zawahri to end a dispute with the movement's Syrian wing, the SITE Monitoring group reported on Saturday. Al Qaeda in Iraq announced in April it had united with …

Al-Qaeda's leader in Iraq has defied orders from the group's global chief, Ayman al-Zawahiri, to break up his claimed union with a jihadist group in Syria, according to an audio message released Saturday.

BAGHDAD, June 15 (Reuters) - Two people were killed in a mortar attack on an Iranian dissident camp in the Iraqi capital on Saturday, police sources said. The Mujahadin-e-Khalq (MEK) dissident group said two of its members had been killed. It was not immediately clear who carried out the attack. (Reporting by Kareem Raheem; …

A rocket attack on an Iranian exile group housed at a camp near Baghdad on Saturday resulted in fatalities, a United Nations spokeswoman said, the second deadly attack on the camp this year.

Iraqi press freedom activists on Saturday decried the detention for more than 10 days of two journalists accused of stealing the notebook of the country's defence minister following a meeting of political leaders.

The United States stands behind its assessment that the Syrian regime has used chemical weapons, vowing Friday there will be no repeat of the damaging mistake it made over Iraq.

Baghdad and Kuwait, Asharq Al-Awsat–Iraq and Kuwait signed a number of agreements during the visit paid by Kuwaiti prime minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah to Baghdad. The two countries also agreed to request that Iraq be released from its UN Chapter VII obligations.The Kuwaiti prime minister arrived in the Iraqi …