Iraq News

WITH their clipped moustaches and short back and side haircuts they did not look like the Indiana Jones's of their day, but the two intrepid adventurers from Southampton were made of stern stuff.

"His shadow is still following Iraqi society everywhere," says Iraqi Kurdish photographer Jamal Penjweny whose series "Saddam is Here" attempts to capture this thought.

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The top UN official in Iraq on Friday urged the Iraqi leaders to better protect civilians following a wave of bombings across the country in recent days, a spokesman told reporters here.

Organization founder James Wasson said the group is still working to collect names of service members and honor them with a sign hung in their hometown.

At least 15 people were killed Saturday in Baghdad and Anbar provinces, police said, in what appeared to be a continuation of sectarian violence.

BAGHDAD Gunmen killed an anti-terrorism policeman and his family in Baghdad on Saturday, while kidnappers abducted eight policemen guarding a post on Iraq's main highway to Jordan and Syria, the latest in a wave of violence to grip the country.

Iraqi authorities say gunmen have broken into the house of an anti-terrorism police officer in the southern suburbs of Baghdad, killing five people including him and his sleeping family.

Two British tour operators have launched holidays to northern Iraq, a region where the horrors of Saddam's tyranny are being replaced by hospitality and hope Bakhtyar Omar was showing me photographs of his family.

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People gather at the site of a bomb attack in Baquba, about 50 km northeast of Baghdad, May 17, 2013.

Residents gather at the site of a car bomb attack in Baghdad's Sadr City May 16, 2013.

The most feared and effective rebel group battling President Bashar Assad, the Islamist Nusra Front, is being eclipsed by a more radical jihadi force whose aims go far beyond overthrowing the Syrian leader.

Despite Iraq being rich in natural resources and the US pouring money into its economy for over a decade, Iraqi infrastructure is constantly failing and the people are forced to beg, as RT's Lucy Kafanov reported from the war-torn country.

Bombs struck Sunnis leaving a mosque and attending a funeral in Iraq, killing dozens on Friday as tensions between Sunnis and Shiites fester.

In Basra, mourners on Friday carried the coffin of Mohammed Aboud , who they say was killed by a sniper fire near the shrine of Sayida Zeinab outside the capital of Damascus five days before.

Jodi Arias returns to court for the final phase of her trial as the same jury that convicted her of first-degree murder last week now weighs whether the former waitress should be sentenced to life in prison or death.

Iraqi anti-government gunmen from Sunni tribes in Anbar province march during a protest in Ramadi on April 26, 2013.

TWO car bombs have exploded in sprawling Shi'ite neighbourhoods of the Iraqi capital, killing at least 12 civilians and wounding 30, officials say.

A U.S. Army sergeant was sentenced to life in prison without parole on Thursday for killing five fellow servicemen in a shooting spree in Iraq, one of the worst cases of violence by an American soldier against other U.S. troops.