Young Iraqi teenagers widely perceived to be gay are being brutally killed in Baghdad with Shiite militias distributing lists of targets warning of further assaults, officials and human rights groups

Twenty-seven policemen were killed Monday in a series of attacks carried out by gunmen wearing military uniforms in Haditha city in Iraq's western province of Anbar.

The attack took place at about 2

A wave of attacks blamed on Al-Qaeda killed at least 42 people on Thursday, in what Iraq's parliament speaker said was an attempt to derail an Arab League summit planned for the end of March.

Securit

A wave of bombings and shootings across Iraq killed at least 32 people on Thursday, security officials said.

Twenty-two people were killed in attacks in Baghdad, an interior ministry official said.

A suicide car bomber blew himself up in front of a Baghdad police academy on Sunday, killing 15 people and wounding 21 others in the deadliest attack for weeks in the Iraqi capital, security officials

The head of Al Qaeda is calling on Muslims across the Arab world and beyond to support rebels in Syria who are seeking to overthrow President Bashar Assad, and says they cannot depend on the West for help.

Iraqi officials say a car bomb south of Baghdad has seriously wounded a local police chief.
Police officials say Lt Col Salman Kadhim was badly hurt when the bomb that was hidden in a parked car in t

Jihadists are moving from Iraq to Syria, as are weapons being sent to opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime, Iraq's deputy interior minister said on Saturday.

Assad has been attempti

A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-packed car near a funeral procession in southeastern Baghdad on Friday, killing at least 32 people - half of them policemen who were guarding the march - in th

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