Iraq News

Violence slams Iraq today. Al Jazeera notes , "Eight car bombs in mainly Shia districts of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, killed 20 people on Monday." National Iraqi News Agency reports a Mosul roadside bombing injured a police officer and civilian , 2 Basra car bombings claimed 13 lives and left fifty injured , a Samara car bombing claimed 13 lives ... (more)

Iraqi security force members gather at the site of a car bomb attack in front of a crowded popular restaurant in Basra, 340 miles southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 20, 2013.

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UNKNOWN gunmen have shot dead at least seven women and five men at a brothel in Baghdad, security and medical officials say.

BAGHDAD: Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki ordered a shake-up of senior security officers yesterday after a spate of unrest that has killed more than 380 people so far this month, an official said.

Iraqi authorities have forced another Syria-bound Iranian plane to land in Baghdad for inspection, despite Tehran's repeated protests against the move, Press TV reported.

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A series of bomb and gun attacks across Iraq killed more than 40 people on Tuesday, a day after over 70 died in violence targeting majority Shi'ites that has stoked fears of all-out sectarian war with minority Sunnis.

The Iraqi government on Tuesday expressed regret over a recent incident that took place in the Royal Cultural Centre, during an event for the Iraqi Embassy in Amman, where a group of Jordanian lawyers where attacked by embassy staff.

A wave of attacks across Iraq targeting Shiite muslims has left more than 60 people dead on Monday.

New attacks in three Iraqi cities have killed at least seven people and wounded more than 60 others.

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.