At least 74 people have been killed in a series of attacks across Iraq, including the capital, Baghdad, officials say. The officials said on Thursday that the death toll from the new wave of attacks claimed the lives of 74 people a day earlier. Wednesday became the bloodiest day in the country in more than seven months. In the deadliest incident,...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iraq's security forces have arrested seven suspects in connection with the recent terrorist attack on Iranian workers and technicians in the Northern Iraqi city of Baquba, provincial officials announced. "The security forces have arrested 7 individuals suspected of involvement in the Saturday terrorist attack on the vehicle of an ...

[caption id="attachment_92360" align="alignright" width="186"] Iraqi civilians begin to clean up in the aftermath of a car bombing on a commercial street in Baghdad's eastern neighborhood of Sadr City, Iraq, Friday, April 11, 2014. AP Photo[/caption] Ghasre Shirin, May 24, IRNA Nine Iranian workers were killed or wounded in a terrorist attack at ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - The United States plans to sell nearly $1 billion worth of warplanes, armored vehicles and surveillance aerostats to Iraq. The deal includes 24 AT-6C Texan II light-attack aircraft, a turboprop plane manufactured by Beechcraft that has .50 caliber machine guns, advanced avionics and can carry precision-guided bombs, the Pentagon ...

Tehran, May 14, IRNA - Advisor to the Supreme Leader for International Affairs Ali-Akbar Velayati said on Wednesday that Iran supports democracy in Iraq and Syria. Talking to IRNA, he noted that Bashar Assad?s popularity among Syrian people has increased a lot after the imposed civil war because of his resistance to the Saudi paid terrorists. Assad ...

[caption id="attachment_92908" align="alignright" width="201"] Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian[/caption] Tehran, May 8, IRNA Iran supports establishment of democracy in Iraq and Syria, Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian said on Thursday. According to the Foreign Ministry website,...

[caption id="attachment_92360" align="alignright" width="180"] Iraqi civilians begin to clean up in the aftermath of a car bombing on a commercial street in Baghdad's eastern neighborhood of Sadr City, Iraq, Friday, April 11, 2014. AP Photo[/caption] A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-rigged vehicle at a checkpoint in northern Iraq on Sunday,...

[caption id="attachment_91761" align="alignright" width="180"] Iraqis gather in Baghdad's Firdoos Square on April 8, 2014. AFP PHOTO / SABAH ARAR[/caption] BAGHDAD: Attacks inIraqleft 12 people dead Tuesday while security forces said they killed 25 militants nearBaghdadamid worries insurgents are encroaching on the capital weeks ahead of elections....

ROME (AP) -- President Barack Obama is making a fence-mending mission to Saudi Arabia, an important Middle East ally that's grown nervous as the U.S. negotiates with Iran and pulls out troops from Iraq and Afghanistan. Obama left Friday for an overnight trip to Saudi Arabia that has only two items on its public schedule: a meeting and a dinner with ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Twenty-six people died across Iraq on Tuesday, according to medical and security officials. Fourteen people died in a single car bomb attack in Eastern Baghdad which set other cars on fire and blasted through storefronts, 45 were wounded in the blast, Reuters reported. A further three were killed in a the Western province of Anbar ...

Tehran, March 18, IRNA Head of Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization on Tuesday acknowledged about a terrorist blast in the city of Karbala, Iraq, on Tuesday afternoon and added that fortunately no Iranian pilgrim was hurt in the incident. Saeed Ouhadi told IRNA on Tuesday evening that families of the Iranian pilgrims, who are in Karbala, should not be ...

Thirty nine people were killed and 121 others injured on Sunday in a car bombing targeting a police checkpoint in Hillah, the capital of the central Iraqi province of Babil, a military source said. "Policemen manning a checkpoint at the entrance of the city suspected the presence of explosives in the car, but the driver blew himself up they approached ...

(Reuters) - Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has accused Saudi Arabiaand Qatar of openly funding the Sunni Muslim insurgents his troops are battling in western Anbar province, in his strongest such statement since fighting started there early this year. Security forces have been fighting insurgents from the al Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State ofIraqand ...

A U.S. State Department official has highlighted the threat al-Qaida in Iraq poses to the country and its neighbors, as violence in Iraq escalates. Brett McGurk, the deputy assistant secretary of state for Iraq and Iran, told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has significantly increased its attacks in ...

BAGHDAD: Seven car bombs exploded acrossBaghdadon Thursday, killing at least 13 people in apparently coordinated attacks that targeted mainly Shiite Muslim districts, security sources said. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the bombings. But Sunni Islamist militants have been regaining ground in Iraq, particularly in the western province ...

BEIRUT (AP) -- Al-Qaidais positioning itself as a vanguard defending the Sunni community against what it sees as persecution by Shiite-dominated governments across Syria, Lebanon and Iraq. As a result, a Syrian rebellion whose aim was the removal of President Bashar Assad is evolving into something both bigger and more ambiguous: a fight increasingly ...

Syrias Minister of Information Umran Ahid al-Zabi said on Tuesday that the same forces had been behind the bombing attacks in Syria, Iraq and Russia. These attacks, in his words, were plotted and directed from a single centre. Syria, Iraq and Russia have the legal right to take all necessary measures to protect their national security, he said....

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the fight against terrorism is the demand of people from of all walks of the Iraqi society and political currents. In a meeting with member of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq Adil Abdul-Mahdi in Tehran on Tuesday, Zarif pointed to the gravity and seriousness of ongoing developments in the ...

Iran Foreign Ministry spokeswoman has denied reports about intelligence and military cooperation between Iran and the US on recent developments in Iraq, pledging Tehrans continued support for Baghdads anti-terrorism measures. Speaking in her weekly press briefing on Tuesday, Marzieh Afkham said Iran will continue supporting Iraqi governments battle ...

Iraqs army has launched a major operation in Anbar Province to clear the area of al-Qaeda-affiliated militants. The operation was carried out in the northern and southern areas of the city of Ramadi, reports said on Tuesday. The cities of Fallujah and Ramadi in Anbar Province have been the scene of deadly clashes between the Iraqi army and ...