Gunmen disguised in Iraqi military uniforms have killed seven pro-government and anti-al-Qaeda militiamen in the northern province of Salahuddin.
The masked attackers dragged Sahwa (Awakening) fighters from their beds at a checkpoint near the town of Tuz Khurmato, situated 170 kilometers (105 miles) north of Baghdad, early on Friday,
At least three soldiers have been killed by unknown gunmen north of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, while one civilian was killed in a blast in Baquba. According to police sources, the three soldiers were killed by the unknown assailants at a security checkpoint in al-Dulaya, located 170 kilometers north of Baghdad. Five others were also wounded in the Thursday attack.
Al-Qaeda has claimed responsibility for a recent series of bomb attacks in Iraq that left 28 people dead in a number of Shia-populated districts across Baghdad.
The group published a statement on its website on Monday claiming responsibility for the attacks, in
At least 28 Shia Muslims have been martyred and several others wounded in a series of bomb attacks in a number of Shia-populated districts across the Iraqi capital, Baghdad on Sunday.
Iraqi officials said the bomb explosions targeted districts including Sadr City, Habibiya and Qahira on Sunday.
The initial police reports put the number of injuries at 56.
A recent poll suggests that a decade after the invasion of Iraq, the majority of Britons believe that the war “sold on a false prospectus delivered little but bloodshed.”
About 55 percent of the participants in the Guardian/ICM poll also expressed their agreement with anti-war protesters who took to the streets of London in February 2003.
Seven Iraqi people have been killed in a fresh bout of terrorist attacks mostly targeting security forces, as violence once again picks up in the country. Gunmen killed two brothers on Thursday inside their home in the northern city of Mosul, in Nineveh Province.
Iraqi demonstrators take to the streets in the southern city of Basra to show solidarity with country’s Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
Holding pictures of al-Maliki the protesters chanted slogans in support of the premier and denounced
At least seven members of the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) have been killed and more than 50 others wounded in a mortar attack on Camp Liberty near the Iraqi capital, Baghdad,
Twenty-nine people have been killed and dozens of others injured in a spate of car bomb attacks in Iraq.
Iraqi security and medical sources reported that bombings targeted a crowded bird market in the