At least 15 people were killed and 22 wounded when insurgents attacked a police station and a government building in Fallujah, west of Baghdad, on Saturday, police and hospital officials said.
India's new high commissioner to Pakistan Satyabrata Pal on his stint in South Africa.
'Drone warfare has come to stay.' 'India should exploit the expected Reaper acquisition from the US to build an effective counter terror campaign,' argues Group Captain Murli Menon (retd).
At least 83 US soldiers have now died in October - the highest monthly death toll of 2006.
The Saudi and Iraq offer to replace Iranian crude supplies comes with a catch: Higher prices for the same quality of crude. The new government will face a tough decision over fuel price hike, says Aveek Sen.
The incident occured when thousands of Shias marching across a bridge in a religious procession heard rumours that a suicide bomber was about to attack, triggering a stampede.
A man from Kerala working as a truck driver for a Kuwait-based transportation firm has been killed in a landmine explosion in Iraq.
16 police personnel were among those who died in militant attacks in a Sunni-dominated area of Baghdad.
'Lack of contact by kidnappers is a good sign'
Jagat hands over Congress letter on Iraq visit to ED
Al Rubaie also said on Saturday that the people who are afraid of the democracy in Iraq were funding extremism.
Elections will be held in January for a transitional national assembly.
The delegation included former Maharashtra chief minister A R Antulay.\n\n
The United States on Friday ruled out a full-scale reinvasion of Iraq by American military in view of the Islamic State gaining ground in the country.
US army private Lynndie England who was photographed abusing and humiliating prisoners at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison, appeared before a military court Tuesday. \n\n
Minister of State for External Affairs E Ahamed told reporters after a meeting of the Crisis Management Group that Talmiz Ahmad is expected to reach Baghdad by this evening or early tomorrow morning.
The United States was in direct contact with members of the Sunni insurgency, including former members of Saddam Hussein's regime, says Time magazine.
The killing was aimed at deterring South Korea from sending additional troops to Iraq to assist US soldiers.
Suicide bombings struck Iraq on Sunday, killing at least 23 and wounding dozens more in three attacks on an army recruiting centre, a police convoy and civilians, authorities said.
The incident occurred early Monday as the guardsmen queued up outside the station to collect their salary at the police station near Ramadi, some 150 km west of Baghdad.
As many as 7,655 candidates and 307 political entities, nearly triple the number that contested the provisional polls in January, are competing for 275 Parliamentary seats.
A coordinated string of four bomb attacks within seven minutes killed at least 18 people and wounded 39 in northern Iraq on Tuesday, while a Baghdad car bomb injured 28, officials said.
Saddam Hussein's defence team walked out of the court today after the chief trial judge refused to allow former Attorney General Ramsey Clark to challenge the tribunal's legitimacy in an address to the session.
Harmeet Singh Sooden, an Auckland University student in New Zealand, is one of the four peace activists from Canada, Britain and the United States, who were taken hostage at gunpoint in Baghdad on Saturday.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Sunday chaired a meeting of India's top envoys from Gulf countries to discuss the situation in conflict-hit Iraq where the Indian government is in the process of facilitating departure of nearly 10,000 of its nationals from non-conflict zones.
At least 90 people were killed and 180 wounded on Friday as US and Iraqi forces stormed Samarra to reclaim it from rebels prior to proposed elections in January. The Iraqi forces detained 25 insurgents.
The tribunal was set up in December 2003 to try members of the former regime for crimes and other violations.
On Tuesday, devout Shiite Muslims commemorated the martyrdom of the Prophet Muhammad's grandson with mass flagellation ceremonies.
After it reported abuse, US army said the Red Cross should not visit Abu Ghraib prison without prior appointment.
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