Iraq's police, completely reformed after the 2003 US-led invasion, on Sunday apologised for acts committed during the rule of the dictator Saddam Hussein, on the eve of the force's 90th anniversary.

A spate of attacks against Shiite pilgrims and neighbourhoods in Iraq killed at least 61 people on Thursday as the country grapples with a weeks-long political row that has stoked sectarian tensions.

A suicide attack killed five people at the interior ministry in Baghdad on Monday as a key political bloc called for early elections in a worsening standoff that has stoked sectarian tensions.

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NATO ended its training mission in Iraq on Sunday as alliance officials lamented the collapse of a deal to extend it because Baghdad refused to grant its troops immunity from prosecution.

US Lieuten

Bomb attacks against pilgrims in central Iraq killed at least 18 people and wounded 48 on Monday, a day before the peak of the Shiite Ashura religious commemorations, a doctor and a police officer sai

A bronze buttock ‘liberated’ from a statue of Saddam Hussein after the fall of Baghdad in 2003 has attracted global attention ahead of an auction later this month, its owner says.

Former SAS hero Nig

The U.S. is abandoning plans to keep U.S. troops in Iraq past a year-end withdrawal deadline, The Associated Press has learned.

The decision to pull out fully by January will effectively end more th

A suicide bomber killed 28 people and wounded 37 others at a Sunni mosque in western Baghdad on Sunday evening, an interior ministry official said.

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Men gathered on Monday at Baghdad's biggest Sunni mosque for the funeral of one of at least 28 people, including a lawmaker, killed in a suicide attack that has been blamed on Al-Qaeda.

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An Al Qaeda-linked group has vowed to launch 100 attacks in Iraq to avenge the death of terror mastermind Osama bin Laden, a media report said.

The Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) - the terror outfit's f