10 Iraqi policemen killed by militants in attacks on checkpoints

BAGHDAD: Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki called yesterday for joint Sunni-Shiite prayers after a spate of attacks on places of worship, saying the attackers wanted to ignite sectarian strife in Iraq. I call for holding joint prayers... in one of the ...

At least 10 policemen have been killed after unidentified gunmen attacked a police station in the Iraqi city of Rawah, northwest of Baghdad, police officials say. The attack took place on Sunday evening in the city, located about 320km northwest of ...

Shafaq News reported that Iraq resumed pumping crude oil through the pipeline linking Kirkuk and Ceyhan, after a bomb blast caused the halt of oil exports six days ago, sources from North Oil Company said that. The source in the state owned company ...

Police officials say gunmen have kidnapped eight Iraqi policemen who were guarding a post on the main highway to Jordan and Syria. Two officials say the abductions happened Saturday on the desert road west of Baghdad. Violence has spiked in Iraq in ...

Eight people were killed in two attacks in Iraq on Saturday. According to police, four Iraqis were killed and about 30 injured in Latifiyah, 40 kilometers south of Baghdad, when an explosives-laden car blew up near a local market. In the city of ...

Iraq police raise death toll from Friday bombings to

A series of bombings have killed at least 26 people in Kirkuk and Baghdad among other Iraqi cities. In the northern city of Kirkuk, a suicide bomber attacked a mosque on Thursday, leaving at least 12 people dead. Car bombs also exploded in several ...

Basra / NINA /--Basra city witnessed today , the funeral of the dead bodies of two armed elements of what named / Islamic resistance / killed in clashes between Syrian armed opposition and the government army forces in different areas of Syria. The ...

Car bombs struck Shiite neighbourhoods of the Iraqi capital and a northern city on Thursday, killing 16 people, while gunmen in Baghdad shot dead the brother of a Sunni lawmaker, officials said. The attacks followed a wave of bombings Wednesday that also ...