A suicide bomber who hid explosives beneath watermelons in the bed of a pickup truck hit a police headquarters in northern Iraq on Sunday, killing five people and wounding eight others, police and hospital officials said.
Bomb explosions and clashes between rebels and Iraqi forces and US troops have left 23 dead.
Four US soldiers were killed in a bombing on Monday near Haswa, about 50 kilometres south of Baghdad, a defence release said.
Wednesday's attack coincided with the swearing in of the new government led by Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari.
The United States and its allies have expanded their war against the Islamic State by launching aggressive airstrikes against an array of targets of the militant group in Syria, the Pentagon has said.
Iraqi captors have killed British hostage Kenneth Bigley, reports Abu Dhabi television.
Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi denied reports that $1 million had been paid as ransom.
Time, quoting a former intelligence analyst, says that insurgents tied to Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi patrol Haifa Street, a busy Baghdad thoroughfare from where the US embassy lies within mortar range.
Victory in Ramadi deprives Islamic State militants of their biggest prize of 2015.
These include 15 headless bodies found inside an abandoned army base in Latifiya.
Swaraj on Sunday briefed family members of the abducted men, who are mostly from Punjab, about information gathered by the Minister of State for External Affairs, V K Singh, who was sent to the Gulf nation after its prime minister announced the liberation of Mosul from the dreaded terror group Islamic State.
the suicide car bomber drove into a crowd of people queued up for work at a government office in Hilla, about 96 km south of Baghdad.
Hatim S Kathiria went to the US with dreams of being a software sultan.
The US Army said a member of family 'close' to Saddam provided information about the deposed Iraqi leader's whereabouts.
At least 27 people were dead but the violence had slowed and voting picked up.
As allies and opponents of the US-led occupation of Iraq swung behind the UN text to legitimise the Baghdad government, saboteurs blew up part of the Kirkuk-Turkey pipeline, the second such attack in less than 24 hours.
Suicide bombers killed 12, including a US soldier, as the UN edged closer to a resolution on Iraq.
Several hundred Indian nationals may be stranded in the Najaf province of Iraq, unable to return home because their employer refuses to return their passports, Amnesty International said on Saturday.
As the Iraqi people prepare to vote in nationwide elections in January, multinational forces are determined to capture or kill those who desire to destabilise the elections process, said a US military statement.
CBS TV says it has "dozens" of pictures - taken by US troops - showing prisoners being subjected to a wide range of maltreatment.
'There is enough proof of science-driven research in the India of early centuries,' argues Kumar Abhishek.
A US jet has bombed a mosque in Fallujah, killing at least 40 inside.
'I have no idea (what did happen). Looks to me like somehow the multinational force didn't stay on top of this,' said the Deputy Secretary of State.
A 30-member Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry business delegation will visit Baghdad to meet the newly appointed ministers and representatives of the UN bodies for renegotiating their contracts worth Rs 500 crore.
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