New Delhi: At least 10 people were killed and 99 injured in a multiple bomb attacks at a passport and identity card office in Iraq's holy city of Karbala. A number of buildings and vehicles parked there have also been damaged. Karbala, a major Shia holy city, has been attacked in the past by Sunni Islamist insurgents targeting Shia pilgrims who flock to the city's religious sites. ...
03:18 PM, Sep 25, 2011
Baghdad: A suicide bomber blew up a minibus in front of a restaurant used by Shi'ite pilgrims in the Iraqi town of Haswa on Thursday, killing four people and wounding 17 others, security sources said. The explosion took place about 50 km south of Baghdad and targeted pilgrims who were on their way to the southern holy city of Kerbala. "A suicide bomber in a minibus drove into a restaurant,...
03:20 AM, Sep 23, 2011
Hamza: A car bomb targeting a popular restaurant killed 15 people and wounded dozens more in the southern Iraqi town of Hamza on Wednesday, police and hospital sources said. Elsewhere, two Iraqi soldiers were killed and 10 others wounded when a bomb attached to a military bus exploded at an army base in Habaniya, around 85 km (50 miles) west of Baghdad, army sources said. Bombings and killings occur on...
01:03 AM, Sep 15, 2011
Washington: US President Barack Obama said on Saturday the United States was stronger 10 years after the September 11, 2001, attacks and Americans would "carry on" despite continued threats against their safety. Marking Sunday's 10th anniversary of the "9/11" attacks on New York, Washington and Pennsylvania, Obama noted that al Qaeda's strength had been sapped by relentless US efforts in the decade since the tragedy killed nearly 3,000 people. "Thanks...
05:16 PM, Sep 10, 2011
Baghdad: Negotiations to keep US troops in Iraq came under new strain on Friday in the wake of WikiLeaks' release of a UN letter alleging that an Iraqi family was handcuffed and shot in the head in a 2006 raid by American forces, not accidentally killed in an airstrike. Iraq's government said on Friday it will investigate the new allegations. And some officials said that the document was reason enough...
08:10 PM, Sep 03, 2011
Tripoli: Muammar Gaddafi urged his supporters from hiding to fight on as Libya's new interim rulers met world leaders on Thursday to discuss reshaping a nation torn by 42 years of one-man rule and six months of civil war. "Let it be a long battle. We will fight from place to place, from town to town, from valley to valley, from mountain to mountain," Gaddafi said in a message relayed...
07:07 AM, Sep 02, 2011
Baghdad: An Al Qaeda-linked group has vowed to launch 100 attacks in Iraq to avenge the death of terror mastermind Osama bin Laden, a media report said. The Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) - the terror outfit's front in the country - said Saturday the attacks would begin from the middle of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, Xinhua reported. Bin Laden was killed in May in a US special...
10:38 AM, Aug 21, 2011
United Nations: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has "strongly condemned" the series of bomb attacks in Iraq calling the incident "particularly heinous" as it took place during the holy month of Ramadan. The UN chief "appeals to the people of Iraq to reject these attempts to incite further violence in the country," his spokesperson said in a statement. Moon called the attacks that reportedly killed dozens of people and wounded...
01:24 PM, Aug 17, 2011
Baghdad: Gunmen wearing military uniforms pulled seven people from a Sunni mosque south of Baghdad and then shot and killed them execution-style, officials said on Tuesday, raising the death toll to 70 in Iraq's deadliest day this year. The killings late on Monday came at the end of a day that saw a wave of crushing violence sweep across Iraq, from the northern city of Mosul to the Shiite heartland...
01:42 AM, Aug 17, 2011
Baghdad: A relentless barrage of bombings killed 63 people on Monday in the most sweeping and coordinated attack Iraq has seen in over a year, striking 17 cities from northern Sunni areas to the southern Shiite heartland. The surprising scope and sophistication of the bloodbath suggested that al Qaeda remains resilient despite recent signs of weakness. Such attacks, infrequent as they are deadly, will likely continue long after American forces...
07:09 AM, Aug 16, 2011
Kut: Bomb blasts ripped through more than a dozen Iraqi cities on Monday morning, killing 56 people, most of them in the southern city of Kut in a wave of violence that shattered what had been a relatively peaceful holy month of Ramadan. The violence struck from the northern city of Kirkuk to the capital of Baghdad to the southern Shiite cities of Najaf, Kut and Karbala, and emphasized the...
12:27 PM, Aug 15, 2011
Baghdad: A car packed with explosives and a roadside bomb went off back-to-back outside a municipal building north of Baghdad on Tuesday, killing 37 people and wounding 54, Iraqi police and a hospital doctor said. The twin blast in Taji, a Sunni-dominated town about 12 miles (20 kilometers) from the Iraqi capital, were the latest in a series of attacks across Iraq. They came at a time of public debate...
10:50 PM, Jul 05, 2011
New York: When President Barack Obama cited cost as a reason to bring troops home from Afghanistan, he referred to a $1 trillion price tag for America's wars. Staggering as it is, that figure grossly underestimates the total cost of wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan to the US Treasury and ignores more imposing costs yet to come, according to a study released on Wednesday. The final bill will run...
01:20 AM, Jun 30, 2011
Baghdad: An Iraqi court has sentenced the wife of a slain al Qaeda leader to life in prison for her role in aiding insurgents' activities, a spokesman for the country's judicial council said on Sunday. Hasna Ali Yahya, the wife of former al Qaeda leader in Iraq Abu Ayyub al-Masri, was given life imprisonment on Thursday, Abdul-Sattar al-Birqdar, spokesman for Iraq's Supreme Judicial Council said. "She was convicted last Thursday...
10:02 PM, Jun 26, 2011
Baghdad: Four bombs ripped through Shiite neighbourhoods in Baghdad this evening, killing at least 40 people in the worst violence the capital has seen in months, Iraqi officials said. An American civilian contractor also died in a separate attack. The violence underscored the fragile nature of the security gains in Iraq at a time when American forces are preparing to withdraw by the end of this year and the challenges...
04:00 AM, Jun 24, 2011
Baghdad: Suicide bombers detonated two explosives-laden vehicles early on Tuesday near a government compound south of Baghdad, killing at least 22 people and wounding dozens, Iraqi officials said. The attacks come as Iraq's top political factions started to discuss in earnest whether to ask some of the U.S. troops to stay beyond the Dec. 31 withdrawal deadline because of the security situation. While violence is well below what it was...
12:58 PM, Jun 21, 2011
Baghdad: A roadside bomb exploded on Monday morning next to a French Embassy convoy travelling through downtown Baghdad, wounding seven people, Iraqi officials said. A police officer said the bomb, which exploded at about 8:30 a.m., lightly damaged one of the three armoured SUVs in the capital's commercial Karrada area. Four Iraqi guards working for a private security company employed by the embassy and three civilian bystanders were wounded, the...
04:26 PM, Jun 20, 2011
Baghdad: Iraq's Parliament is chasing about $17 billion of Iraqi oil money it says was stolen after the 2003 US-led invasion and has asked the United Nations for help to track it down. The missing money was shipped to Iraq from the United States to help with reconstruction after the ouster of Saddam Hussain. In a letter to the UN office in Baghdad in April, the Parliament's Integrity Committee asked...
07:18 AM, Jun 20, 2011
Baghdad: The suggestion by a US congressman that Iraq repay the United States for the money it has spent in the country has stirred anger, with an Iraqi lawmaker ridiculing the idea as "stupid" and others saying Iraqis should be compensated for the hardships they've endured. Rep Dana Rohrabacher, a Republican from California, suggested during a trip to Baghdad with fellow lawmakers on Friday that once Iraq becomes a rich...
08:45 PM, Jun 12, 2011
Baghdad: Five American troops serving as advisers to Iraqi security police in eastern Baghdad were killed on Monday when rockets slammed into the compound where they lived. The deaths were the largest single-day loss of life for American forces in two years. The US military announced the deaths in a brief statement, excluding details. Two Iraqi security officials later said the troops died when three rockets hit near the US...
08:28 PM, Jun 06, 2011
