A suicide bomber blew himself up at the headquarters of a Kurdish political party in Iraq's ethnically mixed province of Diyala, killing 18 people, Reuters quoted local officials and medics as saying.
A further 60 people were wounded in the bombing (...)
Akhir 09, 1432 / March 14, 2011, SPA -- A car-bomb attack Monday on an army headquarters in the northern Iraqi province of Diyala killed 10 people, mostly Iraqi soldiers, and injured at least 25, as dpa reported.
According to police, the car-bomb (...)
About 1,000 people protested against frequent
power cuts in the Iraqi city of Baquba today, in the wake of
the resignation of the country's electricity minister over the energy
crisis, dpa reported.
Baquba, which is situated in eastern Diyala (...)
Iraqi soldiers and riot police stormed a camp housing Iran's main exiled opposition Tuesday, triggering violent clashes that left at least 260 people wounded.
Residents of Camp Ashraf, which was disarmed by the United States in 2003 and surrounded (...)
GUNMEN ATTACKED A MINIBUS NEAR THE IRAQI CITY OF BAQUBA ON WEDNESDAY, KILLING 11 CIVILIANS IN THE VOLATILE AREA NORTHEAST OF BAGHDAD, POLICE SAID.
THE 11 DEAD WERE AMONG A GROUP OF PEOPLE TRAVELLING TO WORK AT AN ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT FACTORY ON THE (...)
A suicide bomber killed about 30 people and wounded dozens during a Muslim funeral at Miqdadiya, 100 km (60 miles) northeast of Baghdad, on Wednesday, an Iraqi security official said.
Mourners took cover in the cemetery, under fire from mortars and (...)
Five people were killed when their car was hit by a roadside bomb outside the local offices of one of Iraq's main Sunni Arab political parties on Saturday, police said.
Another two were wounded in the blast close to the Iraqi Islamic Party (...)
Insurgents ambushed an Iraqi army patrol north of Baghdad on Saturday, killing 15 soldiers in a well-planned attack, a day after the Pentagon announced 10 U.S. Marines were killed by a bomb west of the capital, Reuters reported.
The Iraqi soldiers (...)
Six Iraqi civilians were killed and three wounded when gunmen burst into a popular cafe in a town north of Baghdad on Thursday, health officials told Reuters.
The attack happened in Abu Sayda, about 60km (37 miles) from the Iraqi capital. The (...)
A car bomb exploded near a pick-up truck carrying a group of Iraqi soldiers in the town of Baquba on Tuesday, killing at least two soldiers and wounding two, doctors and police said.
A cameraman working for Reuters who was at the scene shortly (...)
Two suicide bombers attacked the convoy of the governor of Iraq's Diyala province on Sunday, killing three bystanders, police said.
They said the governor, Raad Rashid, was not hurt in the attack, which appeared to have been well coordinated.
The (...)
Gunmen assassinated a leading Iraqi official for Diyala province northeast of Baghdad on Saturday, shooting him dead and wounding his brother near the provincial capital of Baquba, police said.
Nawfal Abdul-Hussein al-Shimari, head of the council (...)
Gunmen attacked two police stations on Friday around Baquba, northeast of Baghdad, where the anti-American insurgency has been strong, witnesses said.
The gunmen used rocket-propelled grenades and mortars to hit the Mafraq police post on the (...)
