Baghdad, Iraq News

Security forces stand guard at Habib al-Asadi Shiite mosque in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, June 18, 2013.

U.S. oil giant Chevron says it has signed a deal with Iraq's Kurdish regional government to expand its oil exploration territory in the northern self-rule region.

Two suicide bombers blew themselves up in and around a Shiite mosque in Baghdad on Tuesday, killing thirteen people and wounding 32, according to Iraqi authorities.

Iraqi security forces inspect the site of a car-bomb attack in Basra, 340 miles southeast of Baghdad on Sunday.

India's relentless search for hydrocarbons to fuel its booming economy has managed the rather neat diplomatic trick of annoying Washington, delighting Tehran and intriguing Baghdad, all the while leaving the Indian Treasury fretting about how to pay for its oil imports, given tightening sanctions on fiscal dealings with Iran.

Residents in a Shi'ite district of eastern Baghdad surveyed the damage after a suicide blast killed five people in a coffee shop on Sunday night.

An al Qaeda video posted online in late May and translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute shows masked Muslim teenage boys undergoing military training and indoctrination at an al Qaeda camp inside Syria.

America's newest Miss USA is leaving a white collar job behind for a world of glamour in her new role - and she can't wait.

A Shiite militia has claimed responsibility for a rocket attack over the weekend on a sprawling camp near Baghdad that killed two members of an Iranian exile group.

Three bomb attacks in Iraq including a blast inside a roadside restaurant killed 12 people on Monday, officials said, the latest in a surge of violence that has left nearly 2,000 dead since the beginning of April.

A wave of car bombs and shootings, mostly targeting Shiites, killed 25 people Sunday as Iraq grapples with a spike in violence and prolonged political deadlock, sparking fears of all-out sectarian war.

At least 27 people have died in attacks mainly targeting Shia Muslims across Iraq , police and medics say, intensifying fears of a return to full-blown sectarian war.

Sunni protesters wave Islamist flags while others chant slogans at an anti-government rally in Fallujah, Iraq, Friday, May 3, 2013.

Iraqi Shop owners inspect their damaged shop after a car bomb attack outside Kut, 100 miles southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Jun 16, 2013.

Iraqi security forces, background, inspect the site of a car bomb attack in Basra, 340 miles southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, June 16, 2013.

Weekend Edition Sunday Host Rachel Martin talks to Baghdad businessman Haider al-Jumaili about the growing violence in Iraq, where more than a thousand people died in May. Please keep your community civil.

A string of nearly a dozen apparently coordinated bombs and a shooting killed at least 30 and wounded scores across Iraq on Sunday, extending a wave of violence that is raising fears of a return to widespread killing a decade after the U.S.-led invasion.

Iraqis gather at the scene of an explosion in Basra, 420 kilometres southeast of Baghdad, on Sunday.

"The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him."

"I used to look at the moon a lot," Robert Stokely says, "and I told Mike, 'When you see the moon, know that eight hours later I'll see it too, and I'll think about you.'