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On Sunday, Iraqi police broadcast video purportedly showing the confession of a man who took part in Wednesday's bomb attacks, which killed about 100 people. The taped confession, which cannot be verified, said a Syrian-based Baathist leader, Sattam Farhan,...
Tags: Iraqi Council of Ministers, Syrian, Baghdad, iraqis government, syria recalled, truck bombs, Damascus, recalled envoys
BAGHDAD: Bombs planted on two minibuses killed 20 people and wounded 10 near the usually quiet southern Iraqi town of Kut on Monday, police sources in Baghdad said. The buses were on their way to Kut, a mainly Shi'ite Muslim area 150 km (95 miles) southeast...
Tags: sunni, Iraqi, muslim, shiite, Baghdad, Saddam Hussein, U.S, truck bombs, finance ministry, baghdad bombs
Smoke rises near the Iraqi Foreign Ministry after a massive bomb attack in Baghdad on Wednesday. (Khalid Mohammed/Associated Press) A supporter of late dictator Saddam Hussein's Baath party has confessed to orchestrating one of the bloodiest attacks...
Tags: Iraqia, Baghdad, truck bombs, targeting government, U.S, Saddam Hussein, government buildings, Saddam Hussien
Iraq has arrested a "terrorist group" loyal to toppled dictator Saddam Hussein in the wake of twin truck bombings that killed 95 people in Baghdad two days ago, a senior security officer said. "This terrorist group committed the attacks," Major General...
Tags: Iraqi Army, Baghdad, truck bombs, Saddam Hussein, massive truck, deadly bombs, Nouri al-Maliki, traffic lights, prime minister
The Iraqi government implemented new security measures a day after a string of bombings in Baghdad killed at least 100 people and wounded hundreds more, an interior ministry official told CNN on Thursday. The measures, ordered by Prime Minister Nuri...
Tags: Iraqi, Baghdad, prime minister, bombs attack, truck bombs, finance ministry, Dora, bombs attached
A series of bombings killed 48 people and wounded 231 in Iraq on Monday, the Ministry of Interior said, fueling fears of more sectarian violence. At least seven people were killed and 46 wounded when a car bomb exploded near laborers gathered in the...
Tags: Iraqi, Mosul, Baghdad, northern city, U.S, Shiite, Khaznah, truck bombs
In the deadliest single attack, two booby-trapped trucks exploded before dawn in the village of Khaznah, east of Mosul, leaving 25 people dead and 70 others wounded. Thirty-five houses were destroyed in the village, which is home to members of the tiny...
Tags: Iraqi, Mosul, Baghdad, truck bombs, bombs killing, northern city, double truck, car bombs, near mosul, Khaznah
At least 11 people are feared dead after a bomb went off in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. The explosion near a fruit and vegetable market in the southern Dura neighbourhood on Wednesday wounded 30 other people, the authorities said. Some reports suggest...
Tags: Baghdad, car bombs, Iraqi, bombs killing, southern baghdad, vegetable market, produce market, truck bombs, bombs exploded, Doura
Iraqi police say an improvised explosive device struck an army patrol, killing two people and wounding seven in eastern Baghdad...The police say the explosion, which occurred on Palestine Street, killed one Iraqi soldier and one civilian. The attack also...
Tags: Iraq, Baghdad, Kirkuk, Palestine Street, bombs attack, Turkey, roadside bombs, truck bombs, bombs blasts