Kirkuk, Iraq News

Iraq aims to boost oil exports by 200,000 barrels per day next month after it opens up a new Gulf outlet, a senior Iraqi oil official said, freeing Baghdad to export all the extra barrels foreign oil companies are extracting from its giant fields.

Kurdistan-based Rekani Firm has launched construction works on its $31.58m hotel in Kirkuk in Iraq's semi-autonomous northern region, AK news has reported.

The U.S. government is looking to cut the size of its embassy in Iraq, by far its largest and most expensive mission, months after the last American troops withdrew, U.S. officials said Tuesday.

Lt. Col. Mike Jason, commander of the 1/30th Inf. Regt., 2nd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, and Command Sgt.

Iraq is setting records for executions -- over 50 this year so far. Al Mada reported on Thursday that the Iraqi Embassy in Riaydh was explaining that although they were carrying out death sentences, they did not have any Saudi prisoners who were of or worked for the royal family of Saudi Arabia.

The "Hamilton's Own" nickname dates back to the Revolutionary War. The battalion was formed by Alexander Hamilton at that time.

ADOLF Kardynal, the Second World War veteran who fought at the battle of Monte Cassino and later became a dedicated supporter of the Poppy Appeal, has died aged 88.

A security officer at Stadium High School in Tacoma accused of having sex with two girls pleaded not guilty Monday to charges of sexual misconduct with a minor.

The US and EU have announced new sanctions in the hope of persuading Iran to abandon its alleged nuclear weapons programme, though how effective these will be is questionable.

At least 15 people were killed Thursday in a series of attacks across Iraq, said security sources, despite an attempted crackdown by the authorities on suspected insurgents, dpa reported.

Security forces inspect the scene of a car bomb attack in Sadr City eastern of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Jan.

Iraq is again plagued with bombings. Peter Cave reports a Mussayib home bombing targeting police officers and "brothers Ahmed and Jihad Zuwaiyin" and "killing everyone inside including six children aged under 10" as well as both police officers and their wives.

Bomb attacks in Iraq have killed 13 people, including 10 who died in a bomb attack on the home of two brothers who were policemen, officials say.

Insurgents bombed a house belonging to two policemen and their families in central Iraq early on Thursday, killing 10 people inside in the latest brazen attack since the U.S. troop withdrawal, officials said.

Two brothers - both policeman - and at least eight of their relatives were reported to have been killed after insurgents bombed a house in Musayyib in the south of Baghdad.

An Iraqi policeman and nine relatives were killed as they slept when militants bombed their home south of Baghdad on Thursday, police sources said, in the latest attack on local officials and security forces.

Iraqi security forces inspect the site of a blast in Bartala in the Nineveh province, north of Baghdad.

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An Iraqi police official says gunmen have attacked the house of a police officer near the northern oil-rich city of Kirkuk, killing one of his guards.

An Iraqi police official says gunmen have attacked the house of a police officer near the northern oil-rich city of Kirkuk, killing one of his guards.