A series of attacks across the Iraqi capital left seven people dead and nine wounded Tuesday, while another attack killed a local leader and wounded his guard in Falluja.
An Iraqi interior ministry official was assassinated while driving in Baghdad, one of several deadly attacks Saturday reported by police.
Gunmen stormed a home in a small town south of Baghdad early Wednesday, killing a local leader and three of his sons, police said.
A series of attacks Wednesday and Thursday in Iraq, targeting coffee shops and members of Awakening Councils, left 16 people dead and dozens of other wounded, officials said.
Monday was a scary day for Iraqis living in and around Baghdad, as people weren't even safe in their own homes.
The leaders of Awakening Councils in two Iraqi provinces Sunday denied a report that hundreds of council members have defected to al Qaeda.
Clashes erupted throughout Iraq on Saturday between gunmen and state security forces, killing five police officers, a local Awakening Council member and a 7-year-old boy, authorities said.
At least 36 people were killed and 100 others were wounded when three explosions struck central Basra, police officials said Sunday.
Al Qaeda in Iraq claimed responsibility Friday for two recent suicide bombings that killed 46 people and wounded dozens more.
Suicide bombers target The Awakening Council, killing at least 43 people, according to Iraqi police.
A suicide bomber killed at least 43 people and wounded 40 others in an attack outside Baghdad on Sunday morning, police said.
Gunmen stormed a house north of Baghdad, killing the family of a local Awakening Council leader, police officials said Tuesday.
At least eight members of an Iraqi family were killed and a child was wounded Wednesday in a bombing in the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, local police said.
An Iraqi official condemned Friday the decision by a U.S. jury not to sentence a U.S. soldier to death.
Three U.S. soldiers were among at least 15 people killed in a suicide bombing on a U.S. military patrol in Baghdad on Thursday morning, Iraq's Interior Ministry said.
Iraqi security forces and Awakening Council members clashed Saturday in Baghdad, leaving two civilians dead, 13 other people wounded, and five Iraqi soldiers kidnapped, a military official told CNN.
Three bombings in or near Baghdad killed five people Thursday, authorities said.
At least 22 police officers and Awakening Council members were killed in an ambush southwest of Diyala Wednesday, a U.S. military official said.
U.S. forces killed at least six Iraqi security troops after Iraqi personnel mistakenly fired on an American patrol boat north of Baghdad on Wednesday, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official said.
The American military has turned over the province, but the allies who helped tame the area feel abandoned
A suicide bombing killed 15 people, including a leader of a U.S.-backed militia, and wounded nearly 30 others Sunday in a Sunni Arab district of Baghdad, Iraqi authorities said.
CNN's Fredrik Pleitgen reports on the violence that marred a religious pilgrimage in Iraq.
The death of an Air Force technical sergeant in Iraq last week quietly brought a somber milestone: One hundred American female service members have died in Iraq, according to a CNN count of Pentagon figures.
Bombs killed 11 people Monday in northern Iraq, where U.S. and Iraqi troops continue to battle al Qaeda in Iraq militants, police said.
A truck bomb killed seven people, including six police officers, in a town north of Baghdad Sunday, police said.
With Christmas 2005 approaching, the princes of al Qaeda's western command were gathering. They'd been summoned for something special: to plot a three-month campaign of coordinated suicide, rocket and infantry attacks on American bases, checkpoints and Iraqi army positions.
CNN's Michael Ware obtains a document treasure trove that give insights into al Qaeda's successes and failures in Iraq.
A suicide bomber killed at least 50 people and wounded 60 Thursday by setting off an explosive vest in a crowd mourning the deaths of two sons of a Sunni Arab tribal leader, the Iraqi military said.
ITN's Nick Paton Walsh reports on the military operations against al Qaeda in Iraq.
Six Iraqis were killed Saturday when a U.S. helicopter fired on a small gathering at what may have been a pro-U.S. group's checkpoint, officials said.
Insurgents have kidnapped eight Awakening Council members and killed 14 other people in Baghdad attacks, said an Iraqi Interior Ministry official on Tuesday.
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, officials said.
Two U.S. soldiers who died last month in Iraq were apparently shot to death by an Iraqi soldier during a combined U.S. and Iraqi Army operation, the U.S. military said.
The U.S. military death toll in Iraq for December is the second-lowest monthly death toll of the war, although 2007 has been the deadliest year for U.S. troops.
CNN's Harris Whitbeck reports on the Iraqi militias that are taking on al Qaeda insurgents.
Troops in Iraq have found a medical facility next to the torture complex discovered last week near the Diyala province city of Muqdadiya, according to the top U.S. general in Iraq.
In Iraq, two separate suicide bombings north of Baghdad on Tuesday kill at least 35 people and wound scores more.
Dozens of people picking up cylinders of cooking gas were victims of a suicide car bomb attack Tuesday morning in the northern Iraqi city of Baiji.
Dozens of people picking up cooking gas canisters were victims of a suicide car bomb attack in northern Iraq.
A judge and three members of a group opposing al Qaeda in Iraq were shot to death Monday in Iraq's Diyala province, a local security official said.
Separate bombings in Baghdad around noon Saturday killed at least four people and wounded 21, according to an official with Iraq's Interior Ministry.
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