Iraq News

Rescue crews are working through the night after a monstrous tornado barreled through the Oklahoma City suburbs, demolishing an elementary school and reducing homes to piles of splintered wood.

A police officer says a suicide blast at a checkpoint, followed by militants who opened fire at Iraqi troops, has killed three soldiers in Tarmiyah.

TEHRAN At least four Iranian pilgrims were martyred and 17 others injured in a bomb explosion in the Iraqi city of Samarra on Monday, the director of the Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization said.

Jodi Arias returns to court for the continuation of her trial after being convicted of murder in her lover's killing as jurors consider a life sentence or execution.

The worst of the violence took place in Baghdad, where 10 car bombs ripped through open-air markets and other areas of Shiite neighborhoods.

Iraq's wave of bloodshed sharply escalated Monday with more than a dozen car bombings across the country, part of attacks that killed at least 95 people and brought echoes of past sectarian carnage and fears of a dangerous spillover from Syria's civil war next door.

A car bomb exploded in a Shi'ite neighborhood of the Iraqi capital Baghdad killing at least 12 people on Monday, police and hospital sources said.

At least nine people were killed and 37 others wounded when two car bombs exploded Monday in a pair of neighborhoods, Basra police said.

At least 43 people were killed in car bomb explosions targeting Shi'ite Muslims in the Iraqi capital and the southern oil hub of Basra on Monday, police and medics said.

Providing further evidence that Iraq is already experiencing the violence of a civil war, multiple bombings in two major cities on Monday killed dozens of people and injured many more.

At least 26 people have been killed and many others injured in a series of car bomb attacks in central and southern Iraq , BBC reported, citing officials.

A wave of car bombings across Baghdad's Shiite neighborhoods and in the southern city of Basra killed at least 40 people on Monday, striking at market places and crowded bus stops during the busy morning hours, officials said.

Iraqi officials say five car bombs have gone off in Shiite neighbourhoods of Baghdad, killing 16 people and wounding 75.

Hearing on the radio that a violent storm was approaching her rural Oklahoma neighborhood, Lindsay Carter took advantage of the advanced warning, gathered her belongings and fled.

The first group of exiles from an Iranian opposition group has moved to Albania from a former U.S. military base near Baghdad as part of a relocation process, the United Nations mission to Iraq said Thursday.

At least three policemen have been killed as gunmen launched an attack on their station in the north of Iraq, media quoted local officials as saying.

Scores of people were killed in Iraq Friday, in a day marked by several bombings including two outside a Sunni Muslim mosque in the Iraqi city of Baquba after Friday prayers, killing at least 43 worshipers in one of the deadliest attacks in a month-long surge in sectarian violence.

Throughout her diplomatic career and in the years since then, Madeleine Albright's brooches have been more than just a fashion statement.

WITH their clipped moustaches and short back and side haircuts they did not look like the Indiana Jones's of their day, but the two intrepid adventurers from Southampton were made of stern stuff.

"His shadow is still following Iraqi society everywhere," says Iraqi Kurdish photographer Jamal Penjweny whose series "Saddam is Here" attempts to capture this thought.