Several blasts hit a position held by Iraqi Shi'ite paramilitaries next to Balad air base north of Baghdad on Tuesday, an Iraqi military official and a source in a paramilitary group said.
It was one of a series of explosions in recent weeks at (...)
At least seven members of Iraq's security forces were killed and 16 wounded overnight in two separate attacks by Daesh (the so-called IS) militants, police said on Thursday.
Three members of the paramilitary Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) and two (...)
At least three people were killed and four wounded when three mortar bombs hit the northern Iraqi town of Shirqat on Tuesday, police officials and hospital sources said.
Police officials in the area said Daesh (the so-called IS) militants were (...)
US forces are preparing to evacuate hundreds of staff working for Lockheed Martin Corp and Sallyport Global from an Iraqi military base where they work as contractors, three Iraqi military sources said on Friday.
Nearly 400 contractors from the two (...)
At least 26 people have been killed in suicide bomb explosions at a wedding party in a village near the Iraqi city of Tikrit, medical and security sources said.
Wednesday's attack took place in Hajjaj village, located 20km north of Tikrit.
Security (...)
Iraqi forces recaptured a northern village from ISIS on Friday, hours after the extremist militia seized it in a surprise counter-attack, a local security official said.
The forces, backed by helicopters, dislodged Islamic State militants from the (...)
At least 16 people were killed by a car bomb in a busy square in Baghdad's sprawling Sadr City district on Monday, while Daesh attacks on military positions north of the capital killed 16 pro-government fighters dead, sources said.
There was no (...)
Suicide bombers driving ambulances packed with explosives detonated their vehicles at a checkpoint and a car park in two Iraqi cities on Sunday, killing at least 21 people and wounding dozens, officials said.
The twin attacks took place in Tikrit (...)
Two roadside bombs struck a convoy carrying Iraqi families fleeing an ISIS-controlled town in the north of the country late on Friday, killing 18 people, a police officer said.
According to Reuters, the bombs targeted a truck carrying people from (...)
Five people were killed when gunmen stormed the offices of two television channels in Iraq on Monday, after a series bombings outside the building, security officials said.
According to dpa, there were three suicide bombings and a car bombing (...)
AlQa'dah 3, 1434, Sep 9, 2013, SPA -- Gunmen in the northern Iraqi city of Tikrit
killed six policemen Monday before hijacking a bus carrying
university students whom they left stranded in the desert outside the
city, dpa cited police as saying.
The (...)
At least 50 people were killed in a suicide
bombing on Tuesday outside a police recruitment centre in the Iraqi city of Tikrit, security sources said.
A source said the bomber blew himself up outside the centre where hundreds of young people were (...)
Qa'dah 1431, Oct 19 (SPA) - Bombs destroyed the home of a senior Iraqi police commander on Tuesday, killing at least 11 people in the northern city of Tikrit, police said.
The attackers planted bombs and left a booby-trapped motorbike near the (...)
Seven suspected Al-Qaeda insurgents were killed in clashes with US forces in a largely Sunni Arab province of Iraq, the US military said on Monday. Iraqi police in the area said Iraqi forces allied with the Americans were involved and that clashes (...)
Seven suspected insurgents were killed in clashes with U.S. forces in a province of Iraq, the U.S. military said on Monday.
Iraqi police in the area said Iraqi forces allied with the
Americans were involved and that clashes continued (...)
A suspected leader of the group Islamic State in
Iraq, which has ties to the al-Qaeda terrorist network, was detained
in northern Iraq on Sunday, Iraqi security forces reported, according to Deutsche Presse Agentur dpa.
Muharib Mohammed Abdullah, (...)
A SUICIDE BOMBER DETONATED AN EXPLOSIVE BELT SUNDAY NIGHT AMONG MOURNERS AT A FUNERAL IN TIKRIT, KILLING AT LEAST 10 AND INJURING AT LEAST 18, POLICE SAID, ACCORDING AP.
POLICE CAPT. LAITH HAMID SAID THE ATTACK TOOK PLACE ABOUT 8:15 P.M. AMONG (...)
Gunmen abducted 11 Iranian pilgrims, killing one and their Iraqi driver before releasing three women in the group, one of the freed women said on Sunday.
The Shi'ite pilgrims were abducted on Friday after visiting the Imam Ali al-Hadi shrine in (...)
Iraqi police accused U.S. soldiers on Sunday of shooting dead at least three civilians after an attack on their patrol, but the U.S. military said the dead men were insurgents, Reuters reported.
The differing accounts of the shooting on Saturday in (...)
A U.S. air strike killed 14 members of one family in the town of Baiji in northern Iraq, an Iraqi security force spokesman said on Tuesday.
The air raid destroyed one house, killing the 14 people inside, said the spokesman for the Joint (...)
An explosion shut down an oil pipeline near the northern city of Beiji on Wednesday, a police official said.
The pipeline transports oil from the northern oil center of Kirkuk to refineries in Beiji, from where it is pumped via the country's export (...)
Insurgents using roadside bombs and
drive-by shootings killed one Iraqi and wounded 10 others
Saturday, the Associated Press reported.
Elsewhere, bomb blasts killed six Marines as the U.S.
military announced on Friday that it had completed a (...)
Two U.S. soldiers were killed and two others were injured in a bomb blast in Samarra Monday, the U.S. military said in a statement carried by dpa.
The improvised explosive device targeted a military patrol in Samarra, 125 kilometres north of (...)
A U.S. soldier was killed and four
were wounded in a roadside bomb attack in Hawija, the
military said Friday.
The soldier, from One Task Force Liberty, was killed on
Thursday evening. The wounded soldiers were evacuated to a
coalition medical (...)
A man wearing a police uniform drove a
car bomb inside the headquarters of police in Tikrit town on Thursday, setting off a massive explosion that killed at least 15 police and
wounded 22 others, police and witnesses said.
The blast occurred at (...)
