Iraq News

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.

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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.

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The top UN official in Iraq on Friday urged the Iraqi leaders to better protect civilians following a wave of bombings across the country in recent days, a spokesman told reporters here.

Organization founder James Wasson said the group is still working to collect names of service members and honor them with a sign hung in their hometown.

At least 15 people were killed Saturday in Baghdad and Anbar provinces, police said, in what appeared to be a continuation of sectarian violence.

BAGHDAD Gunmen killed an anti-terrorism policeman and his family in Baghdad on Saturday, while kidnappers abducted eight policemen guarding a post on Iraq's main highway to Jordan and Syria, the latest in a wave of violence to grip the country.

Iraqi authorities say gunmen have broken into the house of an anti-terrorism police officer in the southern suburbs of Baghdad, killing five people including him and his sleeping family.

Two British tour operators have launched holidays to northern Iraq, a region where the horrors of Saddam's tyranny are being replaced by hospitality and hope Bakhtyar Omar was showing me photographs of his family.

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People gather at the site of a bomb attack in Baquba, about 50 km northeast of Baghdad, May 17, 2013.

Residents gather at the site of a car bomb attack in Baghdad's Sadr City May 16, 2013.