DEVELOPMENTS IN IRAQ

Iraq described as "unacceptable" the decision by Qatar to host on its soil its fugitive Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi, who is wanted in his country.

A new wave of violence hit Baghdad Thursday and several other cities in Iraq, killing at least 50 people

In an attack Friday on a funeral ceremony near a hospital in the Iraqi capital Baghdad at least 28 people have been killed.

A bomb killed at least 53 Shiite pilgrims near the southern port city of Basra on Saturday.

The Iraqi government has formally asked authorities in the semi-autonomous northern Kurdish region to hand over Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi

A wave of blasts hit two Shi’ite districts in Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 24 people

A series of explosions Thursday morning in Baghdad killed over 30 people

Iraq's prime minister told Kurdish authorities Wednesday to hand over the Sunni vice president

After nine years, 4,500 American dead and 100,000 Iraqi dead, the USA on Thursday formally ended the war in Iraq

A car bomb went off in a street market in the mainly Shi'ite Iraqi town of Khalis on Thursday, killing at least 10 people and injuring 25 others.

A suicide bomber slammed a car packed with explosives into the gate of a prison north of Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 19 people.

Two near-simultaneous blasts killed six security guards Thursday who were waiting in line to pick up their paychecks outside an Iraqi military base, officials said.

Masoud Barzani, President of the Kurdistan region of Iraq, on Thursday warned from the outbreak of civil war after the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq

Turkey carried out air and ground attacks on Kurdish targets in Iraq on Wednesday, vowing to take "great revenge"

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has stated American forces might still be able to stay in his country as trainers beyond a 2011 withdrawal date.

Three attacks against Iraqi security forces on Wednesday killed 19 people and injured more than 50 across Iraq.

Two bombing attacks in the central Iraqi city of Kut killed at least 33 people Monday. Over 100 people were wounded.

At least 15 people died and 38 were wounded when two bombs went off in the Iraqi city of Tikrit ز

At least 10 people were killed and 70 injured in series of bomb attacks on Friday and Saturday morning in the Iraqi holy city of Karbala .

At least 35 people died and 28 were injured in a double bombing attack in the city of Taji north of Baghdad on Tuesday

Armed men on Sunday killed five Iraqi police officers in a drive-by shooting in the western part of the country.

Three American troops were killed Wednesday in a rocket attack near a U.S. base close to the Iranian border.

Two car bombs Tuesday near the home of the local governor in Iraq's central city of Diwaniyah, killed at least 25 people.

The U.S. military stated that five American soldiers have been killed in central Iraq.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Wednesday called for a dialogue with rival blocs to gauge whether or not American forces currently in Iraq should stay .

Iraqi officials said an attempted prison mutiny early Sunday in Baghdad has left at least 19 people dead.

Suicide bombers activated two explosives-packed cars Monday outside Baghdad's Green Zone, killing at least nine people and injuring 23, officials said.

Bahrain's foreign minister said on Wednesday that the Gulf Arab states had asked the Arab League to cancel the Arab summit due to be held in Baghdad next month.

Nine people died, including four policemen, in attacks in and around Baghdad on Tuesday, security and hospital sources said.

News sources reported that the death toll from an attack on the Salahuddin province headquarters north of Baghdad rose to 58 killed.