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Baghdad book market turns the page on a new Iraq

BAGHDAD: When Maher Abu Hissam started his Baghdad bookshop two decades ago he was selling up to 40 books a day, such as the...

Iraqi ballot box storage site catches fire in Baghdad

BAGHDAD: A storage site housing half of Baghdad’s ballot boxes from Iraq’s parliamentary election in May caught fire on Sunday, just days after parliament...

At least 18 killed in Baghdad explosion

BAGHDAD: At least 18 people were killed and over 90 wounded in an explosion in Baghdad’s Sadr City district on Wednesday, an Iraqi police...

Suicide attack in Baghdad kills at least 25, wounds 63, government says

BAGHDAD: At least 25 people were killed and 63 wounded in a twin suicide bombing in central Baghdad on Monday, the Iraqi health ministry...

Iraq tensions rise after Kurds warn of attack

BAGHDAD: Tensions escalated between Iraq's Kurds and Baghdad on Thursday as warnings of a "major attack" by government forces prompted Kurdish peshmerga fighters to...

Historic independence referendum for Kurdistan underway in Iraq

ARBIL: Iraqi Kurds are to vote in an independence referendum on Monday in defiance of Baghdad which has warned of "measures" to defend Iraq's...

Kurdish government meets Baghdad officials on eve of independence vote

ERBIL, IRAQ: A delegation from the Kurdistan Regional Government held talks with the Iraqi government in Baghdad on Saturday, two days before a planned...

Russia and Iraq restore air travel after 13-year freeze

MOSCOW: Russia and Iraq restored scheduled commercial airline (Air Travel) services on Sunday for the first time since 2004, in what officials hailed as...

‘Gates of Hell’: Iraqi army says fighting near Tal Afar worse than Mosul

BAGHDAD: Iraqi forces battling to retake the small town of al-’Ayadiya where militants fleeing Tal Afar have entrenched themselves, saying on Tuesday the fighting...

Eight killed, over dozen injured in car bomb in Baghdad market

BAGHDAD: A car bomb ripped through a busy market area in eastern Baghdad on Monday morning, killing at least eight people, police and rescue...

Car bombs kill 23 in central Baghdad, hit Ramadan crowds

BAGHDAD: Two car bombs killed at least 20 people in Baghdad and wounded about 80 others early on Tuesday, security sources said, one targeting...

Suicide bomber kills at least 11 at Baghdad market

BAGHDAD: A suicide bomber blew up a car at the entrance of Baghdad's main vegetable market on Sunday, killing at least 11 people and...

Islamic State car bomb kills six in Baghdad

BAGHDAD: A car bomb in eastern Baghdad claimed by Islamic State killed six civilians and wounded 15 on Thursday, police and medics said. The Amaq...

Baghdad blasts kill at least 27: police

BAGHDAD: Two suicide bombers ripped through a busy market area in central Baghdad Saturday, shattering a relative lull in attacks in the capital and dampening...

Attack in Iraq’s Kirkuk over, 74 IS militants dead: governor

KIRKUK: Iraqi security forces on Monday ended an attack by the Islamic State group in Kirkuk city, killing at least 74 militants in three...

Islamic State suicide bombers kill at least 10 in Baghdad

BAGHDAD: Suicide bombers struck two areas of the Iraqi capital Monday, killing at least 10 people and wounding more than 30, officials said, attacks...

Suicide bombings kill at least eight in Baghdad: officials

BAGHDAD: Suicide bombers struck two Shiite-majority areas of the Iraqi capital on Monday, killing at least eight people, security and medical officials said. In the...

Bombings kill at least 17 in Baghdad, says officials

BAGHDAD: Bombings targeting shopping areas in Shiite districts of the Iraqi capital on Tuesday killed at least 17 people and wounded more than 50, security and medical officials said.

Baghdad car bomb blasts leave 10 dead

BAGHDAD: Two car bomb blasts outside a shopping mall in central Baghdad late Friday killed at least 10 people and wounded another 28, police and medical sources said.

Iraq hangs 36 people sentenced to death for 2014 killings

BAGHDAD: Iraq said on Sunday it had hanged 36 militants sentenced to death over the mass killing of hundreds of mainly Shi'ite soldiers at a camp north of Baghdad in 2014.
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