Development In Iraq

May 21, 2013

A view of the protesters gathered outside the Iraqi embassy in Amman. Image courtesy of The Jordan Times
15:36 GMT

Protests outside the Iraqi embassy in Amman were held on Tuesday as citizens reacted angrily to a video showing embassy employees attacking Jordanian activists. The Iraqi government released a statement late Tuesday expressing it's 'regret' over the issue.

An Iraqis looks at dead sheep killed in two roadside bombs that detonated in a sheep market in the northern city of Kirkuk (Marwan Ibrahim / AFP)
12:28 GMT

More than 200 people have been killed in violence across Iraq in the past week alone

An Iraqi man smokes a cigarette in front of a burnt vehicle at the site of a car bombing at a market in Baghdad's impoverished district of Sadr City. AFP Photo
09:09 GMT

Iraqi Prime Minister, Nouri al Maliki, said on Monday that he will overhaul the country's security strategy, in light of the devastating wave of sectarian violence and bombs that has swept the country, causing 72 casualties in two days.

May 20, 2013

An Iraqi soldier inpects the remains of a vehicle at the scene of a car bomb explosion the previous days in Baghdad's Sadr City district on May 16, 2013 (Ahmad al-Rabaye/ AFP)
09:18 GMT

20 killed in attacks across the Iraqi capital, with 11 killed in the Southern city of Basra

Iraqi armed tribesmen pose for a picture on the back of a truck in a road north of Ramadi, on May 18, 2013 (Azhar Shallal/ AFP)
08:41 GMT

At least 10 policemen were shot dead by gunmen in Rawah, Anbar province

May 19, 2013

Iraqi armed tribesmen pose for a picture in front of a truck in a road north of Ramadi (Azhar Shallal/AFP)
08:14 GMT

8 people were killed in sectarian violence in Iraq on Saturday, just hours after a wave of massive bombings shook Baghdad, leaving 60 people dead

May 18, 2013

A view of a coffee shop near Fallujah, just west of Baghdad, destroyed in the bomb blasts that killed over 60 people on Friday. AFP Photo
07:39 GMT

Bombs exploded outside Sunni mosques and one targeted a funeral party in Baghdad and Madain, just south of the capital yesterday, killing some 60 Sunni Muslims in the latest wave of sectarian violence sweeping Iraq.

May 15, 2013

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki speaks to the press (Ahmad Al-Rubaye / AFP)
09:42 GMT

Attacks on east Baghdad alcohol shops leave 12 dead

May 14, 2013

Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) fighters greet their comrades as they arrive in the northern Iraqi city of Dohuk on May 14, 2013, after leaving Turkey as part of a peace drive with Ankara. (Safin Hamed/AFP)
15:14 GMT

The Iraqi government said on Tuesday that the arrival of Kurds from Turkey was a violation of the country's sovereignty

May 2, 2013

April was Iraq's deadliest month since June 2008, according to the UN
13:43 GMT

April was the deadliest month in Iraq since 2008, the United Nations said on Thursday/

April 27, 2013

Four people were killed on Friday in Iraq as sectarian clashes continue. AFP Photo
07:22 GMT

The wave of sectarian violence in Iraq continues as four people were killed after bombs targeted Baghdad-area mosques after Friday prayers

April 25, 2013

Iraq's Suleiman al Gamil
10:37 GMT

The head of an Iraqi parliamentary bloc has lashed out at the government for letting its army intervene in anti-government Sunni led protests in Hawija, near Kirkuck.

April 24, 2013

Iraqi soldiers surround an ambulance after deadly clashes at a Sunni protest camp in Hawija, near Kirkuk
09:48 GMT

Protest coordination committees call on Iraqi tribesmen to take up arms after dozens were killed at an anti-government protest in Hawija, near Kirkuk

April 23, 2013

Iraqi medics wheel a man to hospital after demonstrators and security forces near Kirkuk (Marwan Ibrahim/AFP)
12:55 GMT

Sunni anti-government protestors have clashed with government troops in Hawija, near Kirkuk

April 21, 2013

Iraqis vote in provincial elections, the first ballots held in the country since American troops withdrew in late 2011 (AFP)
10:09 GMT

Iraq hosted provincial elections on Saturday, seen as a major test of the country's security after American troops withdrew in 2011