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Dozens killed in Iraq bomb attack

At least 45 people were killed and 93 wounded in a suicide bomb attack on a restaurant near the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Thursday.

Iraq suicide bomber slaughters dozens

A suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowd of mourners in northern Iraq on Thursday, killing at least 50 people, a police officer said. The man detonated an explosives vest in…

Rice pushes ‘roadmap’ as Turkish troops enter Iraq

United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, on a visit overshadowed by a Turkish incursion into northern Iraq, called on Iraqi leaders on Tuesday to urgently implement a…

Iraq bomber kills child, wounds 13 in playground

A bomb killed a child and wounded 13 others in a playground as they celebrated the Islamic festival of Eid on Friday in the northern Iraqi town of Tuz Khurmato, police said.…

Truck bomb kills 12, US rushes troops to Iraq

A suicide bomber killed 12 people and wounded around 150 in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Monday in the latest attack by insurgents using explosives-laden trucks.…

Seeing a suicide bomber and living to tell

I will never complain about a bad cellphone signal again. It saved my life this week. A suicide bomber had just walked past me and blew himself up in an Iraqi police station…

Iraq’s Doctor Death

Lieutenant Arjuman of the Kirkuk police lay unconscious in the recovery room after a successful operation to remove an insurgent’s bullet from his chest. Al-Jumhuriya hospital…

Fifteen die in Iraq marketplace bombing

Fifteen people were killed and 25 wounded on Tuesday when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a marketplace in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, police said. Police rushed to…

New solutions in the pipeline for Iraq’s crippled oilfields

Northern Iraq’s oilfields are a prime target for rebels looking to disrupt the country’s economy, but now local authorities have come up with innovative ways of getting the vital…

Two suicide bombings in Iraq kill 28

A suicide bomber struck outside a bank as elderly men and women waited to cash their pension checks, killing 23 people and wounding nearly 100 in the oil-rich northern city of…

Iraq bombings kill 30 as Kurdish chief takes oath

Bomb attacks in northern Iraq killed at least 30 people and wounded 88 on Tuesday, as the Kurdish autonomous region installed former rebel leader Massoud Barzani as its first…

Seven wounded in blast at Iraq oil company

Three Iraqis and four Americans were wounded in an explosion on Saturday at a heavily protected building belonging to the state-owned Northern Oil Company in Kirkuk, police and…

Major bomb plot foiled in Iraq

Kurdish security forces on Thursday foiled a major bomb plot with 1,2 tonnes of explosives hidden in three rubbish skips, including one left on a key bridge of northern Iraq oil…