At least 13 people were killed and 31 others wounded in two car bombings in northern and western the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua.
The death toll from a car bomb attack at a marketplace in eastern Iraqi capital of Baghdad on Wednesday, rose to 64 people killed and 87 others wounded, an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua.
The Pentagon said on Monday a U.S. -led coalition airstrike had killed a senior military leader of the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq.
At least 17 civilians were killed in a U.S. bombing raid in northern Iraq's city of Tal Afar in the early hours of Thursday, Al Jazeera's Arabic channel reported.
US Vice President Joe Biden met Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and other top officials in an unannounced visit to Baghdad on Thursday to show support for the government as it seeks to build on wins against ISIS amid a distracting political crisis.
The U.S. foreign policy has always been criticized as being smeared with double-standards, but as the U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton recently admitted she'd made a mistake by voting in favor of waging war on Iraq, a question has popped whether the U.S. could ever learn from its old mistakes.
While U.S. President Barack Obama has claimed that the terror group Islamic State (IS) is on the defensive, experts say this is clearly not the case worldwide.
Up to 17 were killed and 41 were injured Monday in a suicide bomb attack in a village in Iraq' s eastern province of Diyala, a provincial security source told Xinhua.
Up to seven people were killed and 31 others injured in two suicide bomb attacks at a Shiite mosque in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad on Thursday, an Interior Ministry source said.
A senior Iranian Foreign Ministry official said Wednesday that any plan to disintegrate Iraq would have adverse consequences for security and stability in the region, Press TV reported.
Developments in the Middle East have affected Islam in South-east Asia for centuries, and continue to do so today. The Jakarta blasts highlight the growing influence of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria in this region, and portend more terrorist acts and acts of political violence.
Turkish soldiers killed 17 Islamic State (IS) militants in late Thursday while the IS group tried to leak into a military training camp in the Bashiqa region of Mosul province of Iraq, local Hurriyet Daily News reported on Friday.
Iraq is eyeing "a huge expansion" of its railway network and Baghdad is contacting leading Chinese companies to carry out the task, visiting Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi told China Daily on Wednesday.
China and Iraq pledged to establish a long-term, stable energy partnership with a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed on oil and gas on Tuesday.
Iraq held first internationally recognized miss beauty contest since 1972, showing unfamiliar side of a country which its name has become synonymous to violence and epicenter of the world's anti-terror war.
The tension between Iraq and Turkey over the recent deployment of Turkish troops near Mosul is seen as a reflection of deep regional and international divisions, with the parties concerned vying for a bigger role in shaping the region's future.
Iraq on Tuesday said its sovereignty is a "red line" which neighboring Turkey must respect, rejecting the deployment of Turkish troops in northern Iraq without a prior agreement between the two countries.
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