Iraq has come forward to offer ‘substantial quantities’ of crude oil to Sri Lanka, as the island desperately looks for alternatives to Iranian crude, a news report said on Sunday.

Iran supplies nearl

Young Iraqi teenagers widely perceived to be gay are being brutally killed in Baghdad with Shiite militias distributing lists of targets warning of further assaults, officials and human rights groups

A Kurdish rebel group said on Friday that Turkey's air force carried out air strikes on border areas of north Iraq, but gave no details about casualties or damage.

"On March 8, between 6:00 pm (1500

Twenty-seven policemen were killed Monday in a series of attacks carried out by gunmen wearing military uniforms in Haditha city in Iraq's western province of Anbar.

The attack took place at about 2

A wave of bombings and shootings across Iraq killed at least 32 people on Thursday, security officials said.

Twenty-two people were killed in attacks in Baghdad, an interior ministry official said.

Iraqi officials say a car bomb south of Baghdad has seriously wounded a local police chief.
Police officials say Lt Col Salman Kadhim was badly hurt when the bomb that was hidden in a parked car in t

Jihadists are moving from Iraq to Syria, as are weapons being sent to opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime, Iraq's deputy interior minister said on Saturday.

Assad has been attempti

A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-packed car near a funeral procession in southeastern Baghdad on Friday, killing at least 32 people - half of them policemen who were guarding the march - in th

A bomb attack on Thursday morning in central Iraq at the home of two brothers, both policemen, killed all 10 of their family members, including women and children, police and medics said.

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A US Marine accused over the killing of 24 Iraqi civilians in 2005 was demoted to the rank of private on Tuesday but will serve no time behind bars, a military spokesman said.

Staff Sergeant Frank Wu