Militants assaulted a police station north of Baghdad on Wednesday, killing a policeman, while five people, including a doctor, were shot dead in other attacks, security and medical officials said.
Attacks across Iraq, including more than a dozen car bombs, killed at least 46 people on Sunday while the head of Baghdad's provincial council escaped an assassination attempt on his convoy.
Attacks in Iraq on Sunday killed at least six people, among them a police brigadier general and two soldiers, security and medical officials said.
Two coordinated bombs targeting worshippers streaming out of joint Sunni-Shiite prayers in a mosque killed at least 30 people north of Baghdad on Friday, in Iraq's latest upsurge in violence.
The terror of Saddam Hussein's secret police has lived on long after his fall through their millions of reports, which are still dragged up by Iraqi politicians and the media, often with damaging results.
When the heat inside prison became unbearable for the corrupt former governor of Iraq's Salaheddin province he offered to stump up the money himself to air-condition the whole jail.
Police arrested at least eight people on Thursday in connection with the murder of 22 Shiite Muslim pilgrims en route to Syria from a holy city in south Iraq, officials said.
Judicial authorities in Iraq announced Wednesday an investigation into the head of the country's anti-corruption agency over alleged audio recordings attributed to him and relating to suspected bribery.
Strolling along the ancient ruins of Hatra in Iraq's north, dozens of visitors admired the site, where local initiatives seek to turn over a new leaf after a brief but brutal jihadist rule.
Iraq and the United States are among 17 states that have agreed to a new series of recommendations on the use of private military and security firms, the Red…
Iraq is seeking to replace its national anthem and flag in a move aimed at providing unifying national symbols and putting decades of conflict and hardship in the country behind it.
An Iraqi airfield hit by a deadly drone strike attributed to Turkey hosts only regular forces, an Iraqi Kurdistan official said Wednesday, denying Ankara's claim foreign fighters had been at the airfield.
Iraq and the United States have agreed on a phased pullout of the US-led anti-jihadist coalition but have yet to sign a final agreement, the Iraqi defence minister said Sunday.
Iraq and Syria have agreed to restore full diplomatic relations, ending a year-long row in the aftermath of massive truck bombs in Baghdad, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari told AFP on Friday.
A border crossing on a vital highway linking the capitals of Iraq and Syria, seized by Islamic State group jihadists in 2014, re-opened on Monday, an AFP reporter said.
World leaders at the United Nations turn their attention Wednesday to the US-led campaign to root out Islamists in Iraq and Syria, and moves to outlaw foreign fighters.
