Bombs pounded six Iraqi cities and towns on Tuesday, killing at least 40 people and raising suspicion that security forces might be assisting terrorists in launching attacks on Shiite Muslims.

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Iraqi women face court-ordered virginity tests that often show they were virgins until marriage but shame them nonetheless, doctors at an institute that carries out the tests and a lawyer said.

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Two car bombs targeting Shiite pilgrims in the Iraqi capital killed at least 32 people and wounded dozens more on Saturday, marring the peak day of commemorations for a revered Shiite imam.

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Bombs targeting Shi'ite pilgrims in Baghdad and police in southern Iraq killed at least 44 people on Wednesday in a wave of attacks during a major religious festival, police and hospital sources said.

Iraq on Thursday executed Saddam Hussein's Presidential secretary and chief bodyguard Abid Hamid Mahmud, justice ministry spokesman Haidar al-Saadi said.

An alleged Al-Qaeda fighter being transferred out of a Baghdad prison on Thursday seized a guard's gun and killed two security members and wounded another before shooting himself, officials said.

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A wave of bomb attacks in four different provinces across Iraq killed at least 30 people on Thursday, security officials said.

Bombings in and around Baghdad killed 17 people, an interior minis

A video posted online Saturday purports to show Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, the highest ranking member of Saddam Hussein's ousted regime still at large, lashing out against Iraq's Shiite-led government.

Iran wants crucial nuclear talks with world powers to take place in Baghdad instead of Istanbul as had been mooted, according to a statement from Iraq welcoming the proposal.

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Car and roadside bombs killed at least 43 people in cities and towns across Iraq on Tuesday, police and hospital sources said, extending a spate of violence ahead of next week's Arab League summit in