Ramadi falls to IS group
Iraqi military abandons its military hardware
DATE: May 17, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Sameer N. Yacoub
IS extremists capture compound in west Iraq
BAGHDAD – Islamic State militants on Friday captured the main government compound in Ramadi, the capital of Iraq’s western Anbar province, raising their black flag over the facility and torc...
DATE: May 15, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Iraq officials say suicide bomber kills 8 in north
BAGHDAD – A suicide truck bomber targeting the convoy of a top Iraqi police officer killed eight people, including the ranking official, authorities said Saturday, in an attack that bore the...
DATE: Nov 8, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
60 individuals executed so far this year by Iraq
BAGHDAD – Iraqi authorities have executed at least 60 people so far in 2014, a United Nations report said Sunday, expressing concern that “irreversible miscarriages of justice” were taking p...
DATE: Oct 19, 2014 | CATEGORY: Regional News
Car bombs kill 38 in Iraq’s capital
Number of journalists beheaded
DATE: Oct 11, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
‘We will send all the IS gang to death’
Outgoing Iraqi PM visits freed Shiite town
DATE: Sep 1, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Iraqi forces, militia break militant siege of Shiite town
Held area was approached from two directions
DATE: Aug 31, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Iraq tries novel ways to curb rising violence
BAGHDAD – Iraqi authorities are resorting to desperate measures to quell rising violence, ordering huge numbers of cars off the roads, bulldozing soccer fields and even building a medieval-s...
DATE: Sep 11, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
End-of-Ramadan bomb kills 69 people in Iraq
BAGHDAD – A wave of car bombings, mainly targeting cafes and markets around the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, killed 69 people Saturday celebrating the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, o...
DATE: Aug 10, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Series of bomb attacks kill at least 42 in Iraq
BAGHDAD – A series of evening bombings near markets in and around Baghdad and other blasts north of the capital killed at least 42 people and wounded dozens of others Monday in the latest er...
DATE: Jun 24, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Suicide blasts kill 19 in Iraq, including Iranians
BAGHDAD – Suicide attackers rammed car bombs on Friday into a bus carrying Iranian pilgrims and a police checkpoint west of Baghdad, killing 19 people in all, in the latest bout of viol...
DATE: Jun 7, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Wave of bombings kills at least 33 in Iraq
BAGHDAD – A car bomb exploded near a bus station in Baghdad’s main Shiite district Wednesday, the deadliest in a series of explosions that killed at least 33 people nationwide, officials sai...
DATE: May 15, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
