Three people were killed and 79 others were wounded when a suicide bomber targeting security personnel detonated his explosives outside a Kirkuk bank. At least one man and two women were killed. Authorities reported that 26 policemen and 20 bank employees were among...
An anonymous Kurdistan Regional Government (K.R.G.) official is reporting that Iran and Kurdish rebels have reached a tentative cease-fire that has, so far, held for 10 days. The deal winds down hostilities that have affected hundreds of Kurdish civilians since July.
Five people were killed and seven others were wounded when gunmen dressed in Iraqi army uniforms stormed the home of a Sahwa member in Abu Ghraib. The man’s wife, daughter, two sons and a fifth relative were killed. Seven other family members were wounded. He was not present.
A series of four blasts killed at least 22 people in the holy city of Karbala, and about 106 others were reported wounded. The first blast, from a car bomb, took place at 9:30 a.m. and targeted civilians waiting outside a government passport and identity agency in the Bab Tweirij district.
The Iraqi cabinet has amended the draft of a much-debated hydrocarbons law, further complicating the delicate political atmosphere. The changes advanced could provoke political hostilities in oil-rich regions north, south and west of Baghdad.
A radical offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers Party (P.K.K.) says it is responsible for two recent bomb attacks in Turkey. The Kurdistan Freedom Falcons (T.A.K.) claimed bombings in the cities of Ankara and Kemer.
In Anbar province, protesters demanding the release of four detainees became outraged when a military patrol tried to disperse them. The protesters were demanding the release of four men who were arrested following a deadly attack on Shi’ite pilgrims last week. The protesters said they would continue to hold sit-ins until the four suspects are released.
In an attempt to prevent a sectarian-rooted, inter-provincial quarrel from developing further, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ordered at least two detainees, who were arrested in connection with Monday’s Nukhaib Massacre, released immediately. He declared the argument “a small storm which is now over” and said that the prisoners were freed due to lack of evidence. However, talks over the massacre and subsequent arrests continued well into Saturday, and four detainees remain in custody.
Over 23 years after the Iraqi Kurdistan town of Halabja was nearly eradicated in a large-scale attack, the chemical weapons used then are still harming new victims. Seven people were mildly poisoned as they worked to uncover the remains of an Iraqi military plane used during the attack. An eighth person, the district health minister, also suffered a rash while examining the workers.
Just days after resigning as head of Iraq's Integrity Commission, Raheem Uqaili has written an open letter in which he unleashed scathing remarks about Iraq's government. He blamed interference and apathy from the government as the reasons he resigned from his post....
