Turkish fighter jets have bombed dozens of Kurdish separatist targets in northern Iraq, la ocal television has reported.
Some 20 warplanes hit around 50 positions of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), in the ZAP-Khakurk region on Thursday, Turkish broadcaster NTV said.
The army has not yet confirmed the raid and there was no immediate news of casualties.
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Suicide bombers have struck a football match in northern Iraq, leaving at least 25 people dead and many more wounded.
The blast targeted a game taking place in the town of Tal Afar, around 60km west of the city of Mosul.
A local police official said a car bomb exploded at about 6pm local time [...]
At least 22 people, mostly Iraqi soldiers and police, have been killed and around 80 others wounded after a series of attacks on security checkpoints across the capital Baghdad.
In a dozen apparently co-ordinated attacks on Monday morning, armed men used silenced and automatic weapons, roadside bombs and cars rigged with explosives to hit checkpoints, manned [...]
Iraqis have been holding funerals for the victims of a series of bombings in Baghdad, which the prime minister has said were a reaction to the killings of two senior al-Qaeda figures last weekend.
Funeral processions set off for the holy city of Najaf on Saturday from the capital’s Sadr City neighbourhood, where the deadliest of [...]
An Iraqi intelligence team has hunted down and killed two senior al-Qaeda leaders, Nouri al-Maliki, the Iraqi prime minister, has said.
Maliki on Monday showed reporters pictures he said showed Abu Ayub al-Masri, the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, and Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, the purported leader of al-Qaeda’s local affiliate, the Islamic State of Iraq, before [...]
Up to eight explosions have rocked the Iraqi capital, causing two buildings to collapse and killing at least 11 people, Iraqi security sources say.
They said at least 10 people were wounded as well in the attacks on Tuesday morning, although casualty numbers were likely to rise.
Police said one of the blasts was a suicide bomber, [...]
Three deadly bombings in the Iraqi capital Baghdad have killed at least 30 people and wounded 224 others, police sources told Al Jazeera.
Smoke could be seen rising into the sky above Baghdad on Sunday, as helicopters circled overhead. Gunfire could also be heard echoing across the city.
Police sources said all three blasts were car bombs [...]
The secularist Iraqiya coalition led by Iyad Allawi, a former prime minister, has won the most seats in Iraq’s March 7 parliamentary election, two more than those of the bloc of Nouri al-Maliki, the current prime minister.
Iraqiya won 91 seats in the 325-member Council of Representatives while al-Maliki’s State of Law Alliance won 89 seats, [...]
Nouri al-Maliki, Iraq’s prime minister, has asked the country’s electoral commission to respond to demands for a vote recount.
In a statement issued on Sunday, he said it was necessary to respond to the allegations of irregularities in order to preserve the country’s political stability.
The latest results from the parliamentary vote show al-Maliki’s State of Law [...]
Iyad Allawi, the head of Iraqiya, a cross-sectarian bloc, has pulled ahead of Nouri al-Maliki, the current prime minister, after a count of 80 per cent of the votes cast in last week’s national polls.
However, the early results, released on Tuesday, do not mean that Iraqiya is winning the race.
Al-Maliki’s State of Law bloc leads [...]