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

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 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.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki called on lawmakers on Sunday to withdraw confidence from one of his deputies, a Sunni Arab who described him on television as 'worse than Saddam Hussein'.

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American soldiers signed over their last military base to Iraqi officials on Friday with the U.S. troop pullout drawing to an swift end nearly nine years after the invasion that ousted Saddam Hussein.

President Barack Obama meets Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Monday, marking America's exit from a war launched in a aerial 'shock and awe' assault that went on to deeply wound both nations.

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Baghdad: Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Monday that Iraq may be the safest country in the Arab world, as protests and violence rage across much of the region.

Maliki's remarks came as he reite

Baghdad: Security forces used water cannons and tear gas to disperse thousands of angry protesters in Baghdad on Friday as a 'Day of Rage' across Iraq left 14 demonstrators dead in clashes with police

Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki called on Iraqis not to participate in massive planned demonstrations in Baghdad on Friday, describing their organisers as insurgents and loyalists of Saddam Hussein.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki arrived in Kuwait on Wednesday for a one-day official visit expected to focus on boosting economic and political ties between the two Arab neighbours.