Militants attacked electrical transmission towers and lines in Iraq's Diyala province on Wednesday, government and police sources said, in the latest wave of attacks that have swept the area in recent

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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Interpol said on Tuesday it had issued an international Red Notice for the arrest of Iraq's fugitive Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi "on suspicion of guiding and financing terrorist attacks".

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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.

One million women worldwide have posted their pictures on Facebook wearing the hijab to show their support for an Iraqi immigrant in the US who was brutally murdered.

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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