Iraqi authorities banned on Sunday visits to Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's grave in Salahudin province.

"The Iraqi cabinet directed authorities of Salahudin province to take all necessary measures to

Iraq wants Saddam Hussein's butt back! A British soldier who had taken a piece from the backside of Saddam Hussein's iconic bronze statue as a souvenir has been told to return the chunk by the country

A suicide bomber killed 20 people in an apparent sectarian attack in south Iraq on Saturday casting a pall over the climax of a Shiite pilgrimage that draws hundreds of thousands from around the world

Al-Qaeda's front group in Iraq claimed a suicide car bomb against parliament in November which it said targeted Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and MPs, in a statement published on Monday.

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Iraq's police, completely reformed after the 2003 US-led invasion, on Sunday apologised for acts committed during the rule of the dictator Saddam Hussein, on the eve of the force's 90th anniversary.

A spate of attacks against Shiite pilgrims and neighbourhoods in Iraq killed at least 61 people on Thursday as the country grapples with a weeks-long political row that has stoked sectarian tensions.

Around 162,000 people, almost 80 per cent of them civilians, were killed in Iraq from the start of the 2003 US-led invasion up to last month's withdrawal of American forces, a British NGO said on Mond

A suicide attack killed five people at the interior ministry in Baghdad on Monday as a key political bloc called for early elections in a worsening standoff that has stoked sectarian tensions.

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Iraq's Sunni Vice-President Tareq al-Hashemi, wanted on charges he led death squads, called the case a plot to destroy opponents of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki that could reignite the sectarian slau

A wave of attacks in Baghdad on Thursday killed 57 people as Iraq faced a political crisis, with its vice-president accused of running death squads and the premier warning he could break off power-sharing.