A suicide truck bomber targeted a police checkpoint in Iraq’s Baghdad on Wednesday night, killing 17 people and wounding at least 60 others, in a new chapter of suicide attacks that rocked the Iraqi capital in [ More … ]
A new wave of attacks, thought to be conducted by Islamic state, have rocked Baghdad and Tikrit in the past weeks as the group is being besieged in Mosul and seek desperately to shift the [ More … ]
Bashar al-Assad has approved that Iraqi jets attack ISIS militants across the Syrian border after the request was made by the Iraqi PM last month, a lawmaker from said on Friday. At the height of its [ More … ]
Iraq’s prime minister said Iraqi warplanes have bombed Islamic State targets inside Syria, in retaliation for recent attacks by the group in Baghdad which left dozens of dead civilians. It is the first time Iraqi jets have [ More … ]
In the deadliest attack in 2017, a car filled with explosives blew up on Thursday in southern Baghdad, killing at least 51 people and wounding 55 adding more victims to the growing death list this month. [ More … ]
A suicide bomber detonated a car loaded with explosives in northern Baghdad on Wednesday killing at least nine people, two days after a demonstrations by thousands that ended with civilian deaths and intra-Shiite tension. The powerful blast [ More … ]
A suicide bomber attacked a security checkpoint in northern of Iraq’s capital, Baghdad, on Sunday, killing at least 14 people, Iraqi officials said. The bomber, who was on foot, detonated his device at one of [ More … ]
A car bombing has killed 12 people and wounded dozens more at an outdoor market in a district north of Iraq’s capital, Baghdad, according to police sources. Police said a parked car packed with explosives [ More … ]
The death toll from Sunday’s massive car-bomb attack in Iraq’s capital Baghdad now stands at 292, Iraqi Health Minister Adila Hamoud said Thursday. According to Hamoud, another 200 people were injured by the blast, responsibility for which [ More … ]
Anger is growing in Baghdad over the government’s failure to protect civilians, after a devastating bombing in a crowded commercial area in the Iraqi capital killed more than 200 people, including many children. The powerful [ More … ]
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