In a good will gesture to militant groups, the Iraqi government has freed a man who had been held in connection with the killing of five U.S. soldiers, a government spokesman said Tuesday.
A female suicide bomber Friday detonated in a crowd of mostly women and children on their way to a religious festival, killing at least 38 people and wounding 50 others, an Interior Ministry official said.
Bombings killed at least eight people and left dozens injured Thursday in Mosul and Karbala as sectarian violence continued in Iraqi cities.
A double car bombing killed 16 people and wounded 43 others Wednesday at a Baghdad bus station where Shiite pilgrims had gathered ahead of an upcoming holy day, according to an official with Iraq's Interior Ministry.
U.S. forces shot two Shiite pilgrims on Saturday night as they walked to Karbala for an upcoming holy day, an Interior Ministry official said.
A suicide bomber killed at least 40 people and injured 70 -- many of them women -- during a Shia pilgrimage in northwestern Baghdad Sunday, Iraqi officials told CNN.
A bomb attached to a civilian car exploded Saturday in northern Iraq, killing two people who were inside, an Interior Ministry official said.
A car exploded in front of a Shiite mosque in northern Pakistan on Friday, killing 27 people, police said.
A car exploded in front of a Shiite mosque in northern Pakistan on Friday, killing 19 people, police said.
Two bombings overnight near major shrines in the holy Shiite city of Karbala left at least three people dead and 15 others wounded, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official said Thursday.
In a good will gesture to militant groups, the Iraqi government has freed a man who had been held in connection with the killing of five U.S. soldiers, a government spokesman said Tuesday.
A female suicide bomber Friday detonated in a crowd of mostly women and children on their way to a religious festival, killing at least 38 people and wounding 50 others, an Interior Ministry official said.
Bombings killed at least eight people and left dozens injured Thursday in Mosul and Karbala as sectarian violence continued in Iraqi cities.
A double car bombing killed 16 people and wounded 43 others Wednesday at a Baghdad bus station where Shiite pilgrims had gathered ahead of an upcoming holy day, according to an official with Iraq's Interior Ministry.
U.S. forces shot two Shiite pilgrims on Saturday night as they walked to Karbala for an upcoming holy day, an Interior Ministry official said.
A suicide bomber killed at least 40 people and injured 70 -- many of them women -- during a Shia pilgrimage in northwestern Baghdad Sunday, Iraqi officials told CNN.
A bomb attached to a civilian car exploded Saturday in northern Iraq, killing two people who were inside, an Interior Ministry official said.
A car exploded in front of a Shiite mosque in northern Pakistan on Friday, killing 27 people, police said.
A car exploded in front of a Shiite mosque in northern Pakistan on Friday, killing 19 people, police said.
Two bombings overnight near major shrines in the holy Shiite city of Karbala left at least three people dead and 15 others wounded, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official said Thursday.
Coalition troops on Monday formally handed over security control of Iraq's Anbar province -- once the hub of the country's Sunni insurgency, to Iraqis on Monday.
Bombers struck Shiite pilgrims Saturday for a third consecutive day, killing six people in the latest in a series of attacks
A car bomb targeting Shiite pilgrims killed six people and wounded 10 others Saturday morning, an Iraqi interior ministry official said.
A suicide bomber attacked Shiite pilgrims Thursday evening as they traveled to a festival, killing 18 people and wounding 75, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official said.
Bombers on Thursday killed at least 20 people west of Baghdad and at least 18 people in northern Iraq.
Bombings killed six Iraqis and wounded 51 in Baghdad and Mosul on Tuesday, and the Iraqi Interior Ministry said the death toll in a suicide bombing the day before in Karbala rose to 50.
A female suicide bomber apparently targeting Shiite worshippers killed at least 40 people and wounded at least 65 in Karbala on Monday, according to an Interior Ministry official.
A man in a wheelchair blew himself up Monday in a northern Iraqi police station, killing three National Police officers, including a commander, police said.
A suicide bomber killed at least 40 Shiite pilgrims and wounded 60 others Sunday as the pilgrims made their way to Karbala to commemorate one of the holiest days of the Shiite calendar, the Interior Ministry said.
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A messianic Shiite cult's battles with police and attacks on religious holiday pilgrims have left 75 dead across Iraq in two days, officials say.
A woman suicide bomber set off a blast on Wednesday in an outdoor market in Iraq's Diyala province, killing six civilians and wounding seven, authorities said.
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Gunmen kidnapped 10 tribal sheiks in Baghdad as the men were heading home Sunday after meetings with Iraqi officials on the nation's contentious reconciliation process, an Interior Ministry official said.
Five-hundred British troops began withdrawing Sunday from their base in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, the Ministry of Defense said.
Anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has ordered a suspension of his Mehdi Army militia for up to six months for restructuring, a senior aide said Wednesday.
As US and British influence in Southern Iraq wanes, rival Shi'ite militias are vying to assert their supremacy
Clashes between Shiite militias left dozens of people dead and hundreds wounded in Karbala and Baghdad, prompting Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Tuesday to call for calm, his spokesman said.
Police told more than 1 million pilgrims to leave the Shiite holy city of Karbala Tuesday after two days of violence claimed at least 27 lives during a religious festival
The U.S. military on Saturday said coalition forces south of Baghdad found a site where people were executed and bodies dumped, as 10 more corpses were found in the Iraqi capital.
At least 17 people were killed Friday when U.S. and Iraqi forces battled "rogue" Shiite militia members in Karbala after a raid, the U.S. military said.
The fight between U.S.-led forces and militants in and near Baghdad and the sectarian civil war raging in the capital has overshadowed another grim wartime reality -- the factional strife in Iraq's southern Shiite heartland.
A January attack on U.S. forces there is an unsolved mystery. A new report suggests Iraqi police may have been involved
A U.S. military commander said Friday that militants used a mock-up in Iran to help plan for a deadly operation in the Iraqi city of Karbala earlier this year.
U.S. forces have killed a man identified as the ringleader of the January 20 attack on U.S. troops in Karbala, Iraq, that left five Americans dead, military spokesman Maj. Gen. William Caldwell told CNN's "Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer."
A suicide car bomber attacked between two Shiite shrines in the Iraqi city of Karbala Saturday, killing at least 58 people and wounding 170, a police spokesman said.
A string of car bombs and suicide attacks across Iraq on Sunday killed and wounded dozens in what has been a bloody weekend for the war-ravaged nation.
Bombings in Karbala and the Baghdad area killed at least 56 people and wounded scores of others Saturday morning, police and medical officials said.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon ducked in surprise when an explosion rattled Baghdad's Green Zone on Thursday where he was delivering a televised news conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.
A man with ties to a radical Shiite cleric is in U.S. custody in connection with an attack that killed five American soldiers in Karbala in January, U.S. officials said.
Dozens of Shiite pilgrims were killed Sunday in Baghdad when a car bomb exploded near a minibus that was part of a stream of traffic bringing pilgrims home from a religious ceremony in the holy city of Karbala, police said.
At least 30 Iraqis were killed Wednesday when a suicide bomber detonated an explosive vest at a popular cafe in the town of Balad Ruz, a police official said.
Attacks on Shiite pilgrims en route to the Iraqi holy city of Karbala continued into a third day as bombings killed 15 people Wednesday in Baghdad, police said.
The Pentagon is investigating whether a recent attack on a military compound in Karbala was carried out by Iranians or Iranian-trained operatives, two officials from separate U.S. government agencies said.
Four people suspected in last weekend's deadly attack on American soldiers in the central Iraqi city of Karbala have been detained, the U.S. military said Tuesday.
Attackers who killed five U.S. troops at a government building in Karbala posed as U.S. military officials to get past Iraqi guards, a Karbala police spokesman said.
Bombs in Iraqi marketplaces killed dozens of people Monday in Baghdad and in Khalis, near the northeastern city of Baquba.
All 12 people aboard a U.S. Army Blackhawk helicopter were killed when it went down northeast of Baghdad on Saturday, the U.S. military said.
Iraqi authorities say they have been quietly taking a bolder stance against Muqtada al-Sadr's Mehdi Army militia, and the United States says it has uncovered evidence that Iran is involved in attacks inside Iraq.
A car bomb explosion rocked the southern Iraqi city of Karbala, holy to Shiites, on Saturday morning, killing at least five people, Karbala police and hospital sources said.
Hundreds of thousands of Shiite Muslim pilgrims streamed into an Iraqi city under heavy security on Saturday as a religious festival got under way against a backdrop of continued bloodshed.
Thirteen people, including a U.S. soldier, were killed over a 24-hour period in scattered attacks across Iraq, and 14 bodies showing signs of torture were found around the capital.
Insurgents shot and killed at least 14 pilgrims from India and Pakistan, one of several attacks in Iraq that have killed a dozen other people during the last 24 hours.
Iraq's Interior Ministry announced Thursday it had arrested its second "high-ranking terrorist" in a week.
Police reported discovering 43 bodies scattered across Baghdad this weekend, but Iraq's national security adviser told CNN Sunday that "sectarian-motivated violence" is isolated and beginning to decline.
The death toll following Thursday's suicide attack in the city of Hangu in northwest Pakistan has reached 30, police sources have told CNN.
Bombers killed two people and wounded seven others Wednesday in Baghdad as Iraq's minister of higher education escaped unharmed in one of the attacks, Iraqi police said.
Two bombs exploded only minutes apart Tuesday in a central Baghdad market, killing at least three people and wounding 20 others, Iraqi emergency police said.
Twelve American civilians and soldiers were killed when a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crashed in Iraq shortly before midnight Saturday, the military said.
At least 13 people, including six Iraqi police commandos, were wounded when a suicide car bomb exploded Saturday as a police commando patrol was passing by, police said.
In the deadliest day in Iraq in nearly four months, at least 134 people were killed and scores were wounded by insurgent-bomb attacks, authorities said Thursday.
Iraq's permanent four-year parliament will be a 275-seat body called the Council of Representatives elected under a system that election officials said "rewards voter turnout."
An estimated 6,600 families have fled the northern Iraq city of Tal Afar in recent months amid a rise in the insurgency there, a senior official with Iraq's Ministry of Displacement and Migration told CNN Monday.
A group claiming to be al Qaeda in Iraq said it killed an Iraqi Interior Ministry official, according to an unauthenticated video posted Sunday on an Islamist Web site.
Two U.S. soldiers were killed and two others were wounded when a car bomb exploded in southwestern Baghdad Saturday morning, a U.S. military statement said.
In the deadliest single insurgent attack of the Iraq war, a suicide car bombing killed 125 people Monday in Hilla where police recruits were waiting to get physicals, Iraqi government and health officials said.
The Indonesian government "will leave no stone unturned" in their effort to free a pair of Indonesian journalists taken hostage in Iraq, Indonesia's Foreign Ministry said Saturday.
Explosions ripped through Iraq on Friday, leaving at least 27 people dead and five dozen wounded as Shiite Muslims observed Ashura, authorities said.
Iraqi police said Monday they had arrested 50 people and set up checkpoints and roadblocks a day after car bombings in two of the holiest Shiite Muslim cities killed nearly 70 people.
Deadly car bombings on Sunday hit the Iraqi Shiite Muslim holy cities of Karbala and Najaf, killing 67 people, officials said.
A Polish helicopter made an emergency landing near Karbala on Wednesday, killing three soldiers and wounding four, the Polish military said.
A bomb killed seven Iraqis and wounded 32 on Wednesday near the Imam Hussein mosque in Karbala, police sources told CNN.
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An Arab journalist was among five Iraqis killed in fighting between coalition forces and insurgents in the Shiite holy city of Karbala, a hospital official said.
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U.S. troops and Muqtada al-Sadr's Mehdi Army fought bitterly on the Muslim holy day, trading fire in the radical cleric's power centers of Najaf and Karbala, despite ongoing peace negotiations.
In an overnight battle, U.S. forces traded fire in Najaf with suspected members of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's militia, killing three of them, military officials said Thursday.
Coalition forces said they had killed 20 to 25 Iraqi militia loyal to Muqtada al-Sadr in Karbala, as the radical Shiite cleric said his militia will continue to fight U.S. forces.
Coalition forces battled Muqtada al-Sadr's Mehdi Army militia on Thursday in the militant Shiite cleric's strongholds of Karbala, Najaf and Kufa.
Bulgaria's president has been shot at as he visited his country's troops in the Shiite holy city of Karbala, officials say.
A Bulgarian soldier has been shot dead by suspected insurgents who ambushed his convoy in the Iraqi holy Shiite city of Karbala, coalition forces said.
Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada al-Sadr would disarm his militia and drop his conditions for negotiating with the U.S.-led coalition if Iraq's top Shiite spiritual body approves, his spokesman said Wednesday.
Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra says he is "very worried" about the increasing violence in Iraq, and said for the first time Saturday the country may withdraw its troops if the situation continues to deteriorate.
A fourth American missionary died overnight from wounds in a drive-by shooting in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, the U.S. military said Tuesday.
Gunmen shot and wounded an aide of an influential Shiite Muslim cleric heading to Friday prayers in the holy city of Najaf, sources said.
Coalition officials are questioning six suspects on Wednesday believed to have killed three civilian workers, Iraqi police said, adding that five of the attackers were dressed as Iraqi police officers.
A highly anticipated signing ceremony for Iraq's interim constitution was halted Friday after Shiite members of the Iraqi Governing Council pulled out over concerns voiced by the top Shiite cleric in Iraq.
Following deadly attacks in Baghdad and Karbala on the holiest Shiite Muslim day of the year, the top U.S. administrator in Iraq promised Wednesday to shore up border patrols to prevent militants from entering the country.
A series of simultaneous explosions ripped through neighborhoods of Baghdad and the Shiite holy city of Karbala Tuesday, killing scores of people and injuring hundreds, Iraqi officials said.
It is the holiest day for Iraq's Shiite Muslims.
Explosions in two Iraqi cities, which killed or injured dozens of people during the Muslim holiday of Ashura, sent crowds of pilgrims fleeing in panic.
Suspected insurgents killed scores of people Tuesday in well-organized, simultaneous attacks in Baghdad and the holy city of Karbala on the holiest Shiite Muslim day of the year, U.S.-led coalition officials said.
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