Topic: Baghdad

Iraqi PM Maliki vows to punish Tikrit attackers

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's prime minister vowed on Wednesday to punish those behind an attack on a provincial council headquarters in Saddam Hussein's hometown in which 58 people were killed after gunmen stormed in and took hostages.Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki did not ...

Journalist for Reuters killed in Iraq attack

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A freelance journalist who worked for Reuters was among at least 20 people killed on Tuesday when gunmen attacked a local government building in Tikrit, the hometown of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.Sabah al-Bazee, 30, who had contributed to ...

Baghdad blast kills Iraqi army general

A roadside bomb attack in east Baghdad killed an Iraqi army general on Wednesday while violence across the capital wounded 13 people, including a US soldier, security officials said.Brigadier General Taha Ahmed Samir, head of training for Iraq's nascent air force, was ...

Iraq attack prompts refinery closure

An attack on Iraq's biggest oil refinery early on Saturday left two engineers dead and one of its refining units badly damaged, prompting the facility to shut down, a senior official said.The attack on the Baiji refinery, in Salaheddin province north of ...

Iraq's largest oil refinery shut by bombing

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's largest oil refinery was shut down on Saturday after militants carried out a bomb attack and set it on fire, the governor of Salahuddin province said.The militants killed four people and planted bombs at production units for kerosene ...

Biden visits Baghdad 'to celebrate progress'

US Vice President Joe Biden came to Iraq on Thursday "to help Iraqis celebrate" progress, he said, while warning during his surprise visit that Baghdad's forces will continue to need American support.Biden's arrival came during an unannounced tour of world hotspots that ...

Baghdad violence kills three, wounds 14

Three bombings near mosques in central and northern Baghdad on Thursday killed two people, and gunmen also killed a jewellery shop owner, an interior ministry official said.The violence came hours after US Vice President Joe Biden arrived in the Iraqi capital for ...

Gunmen kill five in their Iraq home: police

Gunmen shot dead five people, including the sister of an Iraqi policeman, in their beds in a house northeast of Baghdad early on Friday, a police official said.The gunmen killed the policeman's sister, her husband's mother and father, their daughter and a ...

Iraq marks army's 90th anniversary

Iraq's army on Thursday marked the 90th anniversary of its 1921 founding with a huge military parade that included tanks and artillery weapons in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone.Commander-in-chief Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, standing on a small wooden platform at the foot ...

Three Iraqis, two US soldiers killed in Iraq

Gun and bomb attacks killed three Iraqis and wounded 15 on Monday, security officials said, while the US military said two US soldiers had been killed, the first to die in Iraq this year.A suicide car bomb exploded Monday morning outside a ...