Bomb blasts primarily targeting police stations in several Iraqi cities killed at least 50 people, including 20 policemen and two children, and injured dozens on Wednesday.

A fierce gunbattle in a Sunni neighbourhood of the Iraqi capital on Saturday saw four policemen killed and 10 people wounded, including eight police, said an interior ministry official.

Al Qaeda fighters killed five policemen at a Baghdad checkpoint on Tuesday and planted the black flag of the terror network’s front group in Iraq, an interior ministry official said.

Wounds from Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait 20 years ago still run deep and mar ties between the two neighbours despite efforts to overcome what has been described as the Iraqi ex-dictator’s worst mistake.

A suicide car bomber wounded at least five people in an attack that appeared to target the office of Dubai-based Al Arabiya television in Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.

Twin suicide bombings killed 48 people on Sunday, including dozens from a government-backed, anti-Al Qaeda militia lining up to collect their paycheques near a military base southwest of Baghdad, Iraq

Three decades of wars, massacres and sectarian killings have left Iraq with as many as a million widows, by Iraqi government count.
Hameeda Ayed is one of them.

US vice-president Joe Biden urged rival Iraqi politicians on Sunday to end months of delays and select new leaders for their wobbly democracy, predicting a peaceful transition of power even as suicide

The detritus of occupation comes in all shapes and sizes. In Iraq, it’s M-16 ammunition clips, rifle bipods and body armour at Baghdad’s Haraj market.

Two suicide car bombers struck a crowded area outside a state-run bank Sunday in Baghdad, killing nearly 30 people in the latest attack targeting a high-profile part of the capital.