Iraq War

A roadside bomb exploded in the centre of the city of Tikrit, 175 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad, striking a police car and wounding 3 policemen, police said.

Gunmen killed a neighbourhood patrol volunteer at a checkpoint in Latifiya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

U.S. and Iraqi forces on Jan. 8 launched a new assault against al-Qaeda militants in Iraq and "other extremist elements," a senior American commander announced. "(Phantom Phoenix) is a series of joint Iraqi and coalition...

The U.N. refugee agency on Tuesday called for $261 million this year to help hundreds of thousands of Iraqis driven from their homes by violence. The money is needed to provide health care, financial support and other assistance to the most vulnerable...

Saad Mahami wanted more firepower. He didn't trust the Iraqi government to give him support, so inside Patrol Base Whiskey, at the edge of this village south of Baghdad, he told U.S. commanders that his 71 Sunni fighters needed additional weapons...

An engineer died and several workers suffered burns when a fire broke out yesterday at an oil refinery in the northern Iraq town of Baiji, oil ministry spokesman Assim Jihad said.

Pfc. Jason F. Lemke, 30, of West Allis, Wis., died Jan. 5 in Ibrahim Al Adham, Iraq, of wounds suffered when his vehicle struck an improvised explosive device. He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 4th Stryker Brigade Combat...

Iraq's Kurdish deputy prime minister warned Monday that failure to resolve the fate of the oil-rich city of Kirkuk could result in more strife and accused people within the government of blocking a solution.

Parts of Iraq are in the grip of a drought, adding to woes of farmers already battling security problems, poor power supplies, saline soils and lack of machinery, the agriculture minister has warned.

Two US F/A-18 fighter jets crashed during an Iraq-related mission in the Gulf on Monday, US naval forces in Bahrain said. All three aviators safely ejected from the planes, were rescued and brought back to the USS Harry S Truman aircraft carrier...

A fire broke out Monday in Iraq's largest oil refinery in the northern town of Beiji, and 10 people suffered burns injuries, police and an engineer at the refinery said.

Police released eight kidnapped business men from Kut city who were kidnapped one month ago. The operation was implemented today morning by Zubair city police west of Basra city.

Police found 6 unidentified dead bodies in the following neighborhoods in Baghdad: (3) were found in east Baghdad (Risafa bank); 1 in Sha’ab . 1 in Waziriyah and 1 at Al-Qasim high way near Sleikh . While 3 dead bodies were found in west Baghdad...

A roadside bomb wounded one Iraqi soldier and one civilian on Sunday, in southern Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

A well-respected Sunni leader who was key in helping reduce violence in his northern Baghdad neighborhood was among at least 15 people killed in three separate suicide bombings Monday...Both blasts killed members of local Awakening Councils...

Three Iraqi soldiers threw themselves on a suicide attacker wearing an explosives vest at an Army Day celebration Sunday — an act of heroism the U.S. said likely prevented many more deaths...Among the dead were four police officers, three Iraqi soldiers

Iraqi officials say a double suicide bomb attack in a northern district of Baghdad has killed at least 14 people and wounded 20 others...the first attacker blew himself up Monday outside an office that provides services for Sunni mosques...

What had been a relatively quiet start to the New Year in Iraq ended Sunday with a string of violent attacks. The day's deadliest bombing took place in central Baghdad, where a suicide bomber threw himself into a group of soldiers...

Chaplain Douglas Fenton is quite matter-of-fact as he tells the story of the severed foot...Fenton hadn't wanted to leave — hadn't wanted to ask for help. To those who didn't know him well...But his concentration was slipping

A suicide bomb exploded Sunday amid an Army Day celebration in central Baghdad, killing at least 11 people and wounding 17, an Interior Ministry official said.