Eleven electricity plant workers were killed in an ambush as they drove to work in northern Iraq on Wednesday, while gunmen staged a mass kidnap at a fake security checkpoint south of Baghdad, police said.
Iran's state IRNA news agency says an Iranian representative is to meet with five Iranians detained in Iraq by U.S. forces for the first time since their capture in January.
Staff Major General Ali Hammadi anticipates that Iraqi forces will officially be handed control of the Shatt Al-Arab Hotel base on April 8, and after that the larger Al-Shu'aybah base.
U.S. and Iraqi forces in Diyala Governorate discovered a terrorist training camp in Zaganiyah on March 29, according to an April 2 coalition press release.
A senior aide to the Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said security conditions in the southern city of Diwaniya were worsening at an alarming rate.
Armed groups threatened to blow up the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) and Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) offices in Mosul.
The UK has proposed direct bilateral discussions on the release of the British sailors and awaits an Iranian response on when these can begin.
Iraq has lost some $8 billion to administrative and financial corruption since the 2003 US-led invasion, an anti-corruption panel said on Tuesday.
Versar Inc. announced today that the U.S. Air Force awarded Versar a $2.3 million Task Order to inspect and provide corrective plans for a large number of border forts in Iraq.
Iraq has issued invitations for 15 Arab, Asian and American firms to drill 100 oil wells in the country’s south as part of efforts to boost production, Asim Jihad, the oil ministry spokesman said yesterday.
Citing improved security in the capital, the Iraqi government said Tuesday that it was shortening the Baghdad curfew by two hours and would allow citizens to be on the streets until 10 p.m.
Shiite lawmakers said Tuesday the government decision that likely will hand the oil-rich city of Kirkuk to Kurdish control was forced on Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki when Kurds threatened to walk out of his ruling coalition and bring down the government.
Two lawmakers from the movement of anti-American Shi'ite Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr were dismissed on Wednesday for meeting U.S. officials, an official in the movement said.
Al-Anbar tribes to meet in Baghdad for security discussions.
IBM announced a humanitarian donation to the United States government of innovative speech translation technology to support better communication in Iraq.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Wednesday that Iran would free the 15 detained British sailors and marines as a gift to the British people.
Round-up of violence across Iraq.
