Al-Qaeda front organisation the Islamic State of Iraq posted a claim on the Internet Monday for a wave of more than 30 attacks around the country that killed more than 88 people.

The bombings and sho

A series of at least 10 attacks across Iraq, including a bombing at a state-owned oil company, killed 31 people and wounded more than 80 others, security and medical officials said on Sunday.

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Iraq's fugitive Vice-President Tareq al-Hashemi, a top critic of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, was convicted of murder on Sunday and sentenced to death by hanging, in a decision likely to renew political tensions.

A wave of attacks across Iraq killed at least 53 people on Thursday amid warnings that insurgents would mount deadly attacks ahead of the end of the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramzan.

A spate of bombings across Iraq, the worst of which were just south of Baghdad, killed 17 people and wounded nearly 100 on Sunday, security and medical officials said.

The deadliest attack took place

Violence in Baghdad and north of the capital killed at least 37 people on Monday, the country's bloodiest day in three weeks after Al-Qaeda's front group in Iraq warned it sought to retake territory.

A bomb in a parked car killed seven people and wounded 20 on Friday when it exploded in the central Iraqi city of Ramadi, police and hospital sources said.

The blast in Ramadi, 100 km (60 miles) west

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.

The on

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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Bombings in and around Baghdad killed at least 21 people and wounded over 100 on Thursday, health and security sources said, the latest attacks in a bloody month that have stoked fears Iraq could retu