At least 10 people were killed and 30 others wounded Tuesday when a bomb in a parked car exploded at a busy outdoor market in the Iraqi city of Kut.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is accusing U.S. troops of violating the security agreement between the two countries after a raid in Wasit province Sunday that left two people dead, Iraqi State TV reported.
Coalition troops formally handed over control of Iraq's Wasit province to the Iraqi government Wednesday.
Iraqi security forces and Shiite fighters battled on Friday in Baghdad and a southeastern provincial capital, an Interior Ministry official said.
At least 39 people were killed Saturday when a car bomb exploded as they left a Sunni mosque in Habbaniya, Iraq, an Interior Ministry official said.
About 2,000 protesters took to the streets of Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit on Sunday, defying the government's curfew to support of Hussein, while in other Iraqi towns residents celebrated the former dictator's death penalty sentence.
Police and members of anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's militia fought in another southern Iraq town on Saturday, leaving nine people dead.
Gen. John Abizaid, the head of U.S. Central Command, arrived Friday in Washington for meetings with President Bush, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Gen. George Casey, the top U.S. commander in Iraq.
The U.S. military has released eight former Baathist detainees of high value, a military spokesman said Monday.
The Iraqi government on Thursday hanged three people convicted of murder and rape, according to Laith Kubba, spokesman for the prime minister's office.
The Iraqi government on Thursday hanged three people convicted of murder and rape, according to Laith Kubba, spokesman for the prime minister's office.
Another self-imposed deadline for resolving differences over the Iraqi constitution passed early Saturday without an agreement. But Shia and Kurd lawmakers have agreed on a "deal in principle" that would delay a decision on federalism, the Iraqi National Assembly speaker told CNN.
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