Iraqi security forces were on alert on Friday after a massive car bomb ripped through a funeral ceremony in a Shiite district of Baghdad.
Iraq’s two main political blocs broke off coalition talks on Monday, dampening hopes of an end to a five-month-long post-election impasse.
Iraq security forces faced charges of negligence on Tuesday after a devastating wave of attacks blamed on al-Qaeda killed 110 people the previous day.
Six bombs rocked Baghdad, killing at least 35 people on Tuesday, the second time the capital has come under attack in three days.
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/ 28 October 2009
The latest bomb attacks in Baghdad have increased pressure on Nuri al-Maliki, who is already in the cross-hairs of former Shi’ite allies.
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/ 1 December 2008
A spate of attacks targeting security forces in the heart of Baghdad and the northern city of Mosul killed about 30 people on Monday.
At least 23 people were killed in bomb attacks and shootings around Iraq on Monday as United States troops announced the discovery of a mass grave with the bodies of 14 men bound and shot in the head. The deadliest attacks were in Baghdad, where at least 19 people were killed in two car bombings.
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/ 10 October 2007
Iraqi authorities on Wednesday condemned the killing in Baghdad of two women by foreign security guards, as the firm which hired the contractors defended its action. Tuesday’s bloodbath comes just days after Iraq vowed to punish United States security firm Blackwater after a probe found that its guards opened "deliberate" fire in Baghdad three weeks ago.
Gunmen wearing commando uniforms snatched at least 50 people from travel agencies in central Baghdad on Monday in an apparent kidnapping as 11 students were shot dead elsewhere in the capital. The commander of the police commandos, Major General Rashid Fulayah, strongly contradicted earlier reports that the operation was officially sanctioned.
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/ 17 February 2006
One of the wealthiest men in Iraq and his son were kidnapped from their luxury home in a bloody abduction that saw their five bodyguards murdered and laid out in the front garden — each with a bullet wound to the head, police said on Friday. The kidnapping comes amid a spree of hostage-taking over the past months of both foreigners and of large numbers of Iraqis.