Iraq News

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.

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

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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.

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An Iraqi police man stands over a wrecked vehicle following an explosion in Aziziyah, south of Baghdad.

Ali Abdullah, a 42-year-old security guard, left his native Iraq in 2009 after receiving death threats for working with U.S. companies.

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

At least 27 people died in attacks targeting mainly Shi'ite Muslims across Iraq on Sunday, police and medics said, intensifying fears of a return to full-blown sectarian war.

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.

Officials say 10 apparently coordinated car bombs and a shooting across Iraq have killed at least 24 and wounded dozens.

Officials say four car bombs in Shiite-majority parts of central and southern Iraq have killed at least eight people and wounded 31. Police say the deadliest blasts on Sunday took place in and near the central city of Kut, where two parked car bombs targeted an industrial area and a gathering of construction workers.

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Seven car bombs struck three Shiite-majority regions of southern and central Iraq on Sunday, officials said, killing at least 13 people in the latest apparent coordinated attack by insurgents aimed at destabilizing the country.

The leader of al-Qaeda's Iraq arm defiantly rejected an order from the terror network's central command to stop claiming control over the organization's Syria affiliate, according to a message purportedly from him that was posted online Saturday.

A deadly rocket attack struck a camp near Baghdad housing Iranian exiles on Saturday, killing two residents, the second such assault on the group this year as its members await resettlement outside Iraq.

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