A car bomb struck a group of police recruits waiting to apply for jobs in a northern Iraqi city on Sunday, killing seven and wounding 17, a senior police commander said.
The recruits had gathered in a parking lot outside a military base about 10 (...)
Iraqi officials say a pair of bombs at a police headquarters in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk have killed at least one person and wounded five others.
The Thursday morning explosions targeted the main police station in central Kirkuk, which (...)
Twin bombs that appeared timed to lure policemen outside their fortified headquarters killed 17 people Thursday, most of them police officers, in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk.
Kirkuk police Capt. Abdul Salam Zangana said 53 people were also (...)
Awwal 15, 1432, April 19, 2011, SPA -- Gunmen stormed a house in a northern city in Iraq, killing three women who lived there, police said Tuesday.
Police Col. Sherzad Mofaly said it's not clear why the women were targeted in the attack late Monday (...)
Awwal 02, 1432 H/Feb 05, 2011, SPA -- Iraq's mobile phone company AsiaCell said that an American, a British and a Spanish businessman were among the seven people killed in a plane crash in the country's north.
A company statement on Saturday added (...)
Guests leapt desperately to their deaths from upper-floor windows as a fire tore through a hotel in northern Iraq killing 30 people, 14 of them foreigners, police and medics said Friday.
Citizens of Australia, Britain, Canada and several Asian and (...)
Hundreds of students have demonstrated in Iraq's northern Kurdish region over the kidnap and murder of a Kurdish journalist, blaming the local government for his death, AP reported.
Opposition politicians joined the students at Sulaimaniyah (...)
Iranian state TV confirmed
Saturday that Tehran has detained three Americans after
they crossed the border from northern Iraq, AP reported.
The Kurdish regional government's envoy to Washington,
Qubad Talabani, told The Associated Press the (...)
Iraq's election commission says 78 percent of eligible voters cast ballots in elections in the self-ruled Kurdish north.
Independent High Electoral Commission member Hamdiyah
al-Husseini told a news conference late Saturday in the
Kurdish city of (...)
Soldiers and the sick cast early votes Thursday ahead of weekend elections that will determine the leadership of Iraq's Kurdish region, which is locked in an increasingly bitter dispute with the central government over oil-rich land.
A coalition of (...)
Kurdish officials say Iranian
helicopters have fired on Iranian Kurdish rebel positions
in a remote border area of northern Iraq, AP reported.
Tehran's military has often fired artillery strikes
against the Party for Free Life in Kurdistan, (...)
Two Iraqi Kurdish politicians say Iraq's President Jalal Talabani has undergone heart surgery in a US hospital.
The two senior officials from Talabani's party say the eight-hour surgery took place at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, on (...)
U.S. troops on Thursday raided a hotel in a northern Iraq town and detained three Iranians, two of them said to be government officials from the
neighboring country's border area, a Kurdish official in
Iraq said.
The morning raid by American (...)
Iraq's Kurds are ready for talks
with Turkey but will not accept any Turkish military
interference in Iraq, the prime minister of the Kurdish
regional government said Saturday.
Nechervan Barzani spoke after the Kurdish parliament held
a meeting (...)