At least 12 people were killed and more than 50 wounded in car bomb attacks on two predominantly Shiite areas in Baghdad Monday, the Iraqi Interior Ministry said, the latest incidents in a wave of sectarian violence.
A string of six explosions killed at least 22 people and wounded more than 70 in Baghdad on Wednesday, Iraq's interior ministry said.
Violence in Iraq left four people dead and 12 others wounded, Interior Ministry officials said Friday.
An Iraqi army general was killed Sunday when a bomb attached to his car exploded while he was driving in western Baghdad, officials with the nation's interior ministry said.
At least three people were killed in three separate attacks in Baghdad and Baquba on Monday morning, Iraqi officials said.
At least five people were killed and 39 wounded when a car bomb exploded Monday in Basra, an Interior Ministry official said, capping a day in which at least 11 people were killed in blasts in cities with Shiite shrines.
Two bombs exploded in central Baghdad on Tuesday morning, injuring at least six civilians, police said.
At least eight people were wounded and a woman was killed in violent incidents Thursday in Baghdad, an Interior Ministry official told CNN.
Four bombing attacks in Iraq killed at least 26 people and wounded more than 80 others, officials said Thursday.
Iraq's deputy minister of transport has been arrested after investigators taped him taking a $100,000 bribe, the Iraqi Integrity Commission said Monday.
A roadside bomb targeted a police patrol in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, killing a civilian bystander Thursday, a police official told CNN.
A car bomb exploded in a southern Baghdad marketplace, killing at least 12 people and wounding others.
A southern Baghdad marketplace became a scene of carnage for the second time in a month when a car bomb exploded Wednesday, killing at least 15 people and wounding 40, an Interior Ministry official said.
A car bomb detonated Tuesday near a crowded restaurant at lunchtime in central Baghdad, killing at least four civilians and wounding nine others, an Interior Ministry official said.
Several bombings across Baghdad killed 34 people Sunday -- the bloodiest day in the capital during this holy month of Ramadan, an Interior Ministry official said.
While waiting for the much-delayed provincial polls, many Iraqis doubt they'll solve pressing water and power problems
A female suicide bomber targeted a crowd of soccer fans celebrating Iraq's win in a World Cup qualifier on Saturday
U.S. soldiers under heavy fire during a raid Monday in
northwestern Iraq called in airstrikes and killed five suspected
al-Qaida in Iraq militants, the military said
A bomb detonated near the Iraqi first lady's motorcade in downtown Baghdad on Sunday, wounding soldiers and at least two civilians, but the president's wife escaped without injury, officials said.
A prominent cleric dies in captivity, provoking a complaint from the Pope and highlighting the plight of the Muslim world's Christians
The grass-roots cleric whose Mehdi Army militia has gained notoriety among coalition troops admitted many followers have split from his movement or do not heed his leadership.
Analysis: A surge in attacks shows that the Sunni insurgency has not been defanged and appears to be focused on high-impact targets
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.
Three Iraqi soldiers may have helped avoid further casualties when they subdued a suicide bomber Sunday at a celebration in central Baghdad, the U.S. military said.
A wave of violence hits Iraq during Army Day forcing the cancellation of parades. CNN's Alphonso Van Marsh reports
At least 12 prisoners died in separate attacks on detention centers in the Iraqi capital, one involving mortars and the other involving rockets, Iraqi and U.S. officials said Monday.
America's top military commander in Iraq said Thursday violence is down significantly across the country -- 60 percent in the last six months -- but that he's not ready to celebrate.
Upon the arrival in Iraq of Defense Secretary Robert Gates, four car bombs on Wednesday killed 25 people across the country
A roadside bomb killed three Iraqi children and injured seven as they gathered around American troops handing out toys on Sunday, police and government officials told CNN.
An Australian security company that Tuesday fired on a car carrying two Iraqi women, killing them, said its team acted because they feared a suicide bombing attack.
Anger in Baghdad as two women killed by private security guards are buried. CNN's Alessio Vinci reports
CNN's Alessio Vinci talks about the latest on a shooting in Baghdad and the Blackwater security scandal in Iraq.
The security convoy that on Tuesday fired on a car in Iraq's capital, killing two Iraqi women, was an Australian firm, Iraq's Interior Ministry said. The firm, Unity Resources Group, has offices in Dubai.
Upset over being "marginalized," Iraq's largest Sunni political bloc Wednesday made good on a threat to leave the Cabinet.
A fuel tanker packed with explosives detonated at a gas station Wednesday, killing at least 50 people and wounding 60 others in western Baghdad, the Interior Ministry said.
Two suicide car bombings struck soccer fans in Baghdad as they were celebrating Iraq's victory in the Asian Cup semifinal on Wednesday, killing at least 50 people
A wave of car bombs targeting civilians and police in central Baghdad on Monday killed at least 16 people and wounded 40 others, the Iraqi Interior Ministry said.
A car bomb detonated Monday afternoon in a busy commercial district in central Baghdad, killing 21 civilians and wounding 66, an Interior Ministry official said.
Gunmen killed the dean of the Political Science College and a professor at Mosul University's College of Arts on Monday, authorities said, topping a series of violent incidents.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki made an unannounced trip Tuesday to Ramadi, where he met with Sunni tribal chiefs credited with helping turn the tide against al Qaeda in Iraq.
An Iraqi police commander was killed during an assault on at least six police officers in Iraq's capital Saturday, said an Iraqi Interior Ministry official.
As Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki urged the Iraqi parliament Thursday to keep politics out of a new security plan for the capital, violence rocked the Baghdad area, killing at least 38 people, including a U.S. soldier.
The uncle of the U.S. soldier abducted in Baghdad last month said his nephew is believed to have been kidnapped by breakaway elements of a notorious Shiite militia.
The U.S. military has put up a $50,000 reward for anyone who helps find an American soldier kidnapped in Baghdad, the Army said Saturday.
At least 21 Iraqi civilians and a deputy governor died in separate acts of violence in Iraq on Saturday.
Two rockets were fired Thursday toward the Burj-al-Hayat hotel in Iraq's capital of Baghdad, the U.S. military said, and three Iraqis were killed by a bomb in Basra.
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