Baghdad blasts wound 12, including 5 policemen
Five policemen were among a dozen people wounded on Thursday in separate rush-hour bombings in Baghdad, authorities said, in a reminder of continuing violence in Iraq.
Iraq's PM asked to form next government
Iraq's president on Thrusday asked incumbent Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to form a new government, part of a deal to end an eight-month deadlock over who would lead the country through the next fou
General, five others killed in Iraq attacks
A senior Iraqi Army general and five other people were killed and more than 20 people wounded in several bombings and gun attacks across the country, security officials said.
Iraq president to name Maliki PM
President Jalal Talabani will officially name Nuri al-Maliki to a second term as Iraq's premier on Thrusday, giving him 30 days to form a cabinet after an eight-month impasse following elections.
Iraq parliament meets, govt formation resumes
Iraq's lawmakers will on Sunday get back to the task of forming a new government after talks following a landmark power-sharing deal were interrupted by the Muslim holiday of Eid.
Iraq PM likely to keep job; lawmakers set to meet
Iraqi lawmakers have agreed to meet on forming a new government as Kurdish and Shiite officials said an agreement had been reached that would allow Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki to keep his job.
Baghdad Christians in firing line as deadly bombs stir panic
A string of anti-Christian bombings has cost six more lives in the wake of a Baghdad church bloodbath, sowing panic in Iraq’s 2,000-year-old minority on Thursday.
Iraqi Christians worship again in massacre cathedral
Iraqi Christians on Monday reaffirmed their faith in the face of Al Qaeda, as 200 people celebrated mass in a bloodstained Baghdad cathedral where militants massacred 46 worshippers a week ago.
37 hostages killed in Baghdad church drama: official
Thirty-seven people taken hostage by militants in a Baghdad church were killed and 56 wounded in a drama that was ended when US and Iraqi forces stormed the building, a government official said Monday
Saddam’s top aide, Tariq Aziz, gets death
Iraq’s high tribunal on Tuesday passed a death sentence on Tariq Aziz, once the international face of dictator Saddam Hussein’s regime, over the persecution of Islamic parties, the court said.