TEHRAN (Tasnim) The United Nations said that violence across Iraq in February killed 703 people, a death toll higher than the year before as the country faces a rising wave of militant attacks. The figures issued by the UN Mission to Iraq is close to January's death toll of 733, showing that a surge of violence that began 10 months ago with a government ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- The Iraqi security forces have arrested seven Saudi terrorists in Ramadi region, West of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, media reports said. The arrested Saudi terrorists were in charge of organizing armed rebels in Ramadi region to carry out terrorist operations there, the Arabic-language Al-Mayadeen news website reported. Clashes ...

At least 10 Shia Muslims have been killed in a bomb attack in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, according to Iraqi security officials. The attack took place in the southern Baghdad neighborhood of Dura after a bomber detonated an explosive belt among Shia pilgrims, the officials said on Thursday. Reports say the pilgrims were on their way to the ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) A suicide bombing at the funeral of an Iraqi anti-Qaeda fighter killed 12 people and wounded 28 others on Sunday. Spiraling November violence ahead of elections in the war-torn country has seen the number of dead rise by at least 940 people in one month. Iraqi ministries of health and defense have disclosed that 948 people were killed ...