"Iraq has a government elected by its people ... despite all the terrorism and violence the people have spoken and they have elected a government," the British Prime Minister said.
A series of car bombings in Baghdad on Tuesday killed at least 127 people and injured nearly 500 others, according to Iraq's Interior Ministry.The first vehicle, reportedly targeted at a police patrol, exploded at southern Baghdad's Dora district at approximately 10 am local time, and was followed by four similar blasts.One of the blasts struck near the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs while the other two took place in crowded commercial areas.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, led the prayers at assassinated Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh's funeral in Tehran, on August 1, 2024, a rare honour for someone who is not Iranian.
Palestinian terrorist Abu Nidal had trained him at the instance of Saddam Hussein, a media report said.
The bomb went off in the Al-Bayaa district of the Iraqi capital and wounded 15.
The United States on Monday strongly condemned the terrorist attack in Baghdad, which killed more than 100 people, saying that it showed the 'hateful and destructive' agenda of the attackers.
After covering the battlefields of Baghdad for three-and-a-half years, Time magazine's Aparasim Ghosh takes a break in New York.
Bobby, who is the Baghdad bureau chief of Time magazine, has seen two kidnap attempts been made on him and his car fired at by American soldiers mistaking him to a bomber.
His visit to Iraq comes less than a week after a US air strike killed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of the al Qaeda in Iraq.
'We decided that in view of an extremely dangerous and volatile situation that we would have to temporarily close our offices in Baghdad and Basra,' Red Cross spokesperson Florian Westphal said.
The incident occurred on the first anniversary of Saddam Hussein's capture.
Rescue workers heaped badly mutilated bodies into ambulances and police trucks while dazed Iraqi Army men in uniform stood watching the carnage.
They will try to reassure Iraqis that the West condemned torture of Iraqi prisoners.
No group has immediately claimed responsibility for the attack which bore the hallmarks of the Islamic State group.
On Thursdays, the market is especially crowded because people come from the other provinces to stock up on food for the weekend.
Two car bombs exploded at police stations in two towns near Baghdad on Saturday, killing at least 16 people.
She last won a medal in the World Cup Stage 3 where she had bagged a team silver.
The blast narrowly missed a US convoy, which passed by a few seconds earlier.
Addressing a press conference in New Delhi, External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh said the hostages would soon reach Kuwait by road.
The US senator had earlier shared Thanksgiving dinner with US troops in Afghanistan on Thursday.
Sunni rebels from an Al Qaeda splinter group overran the Iraqi city of Tikrit on Wednesday and closed in on the biggest oil refinery in the country, making further gains in their rapid military advance against the Shi'ite-led government in Baghdad.
The explosion in the Ameriyah district targeted the police force's bureau of criminal investigations.
Four Iraqi soldiers and seven civilians were killed in the explosion, set off by a suicide bomber in a car packed with nearly half a ton of explosives.
Sources told rediff.com that Gupta had begun showing her first signs of dissatisfaction with the Indian administration while she was in Baghdad, where she was reportedly humiliated by one of her senior colleagues. Gupta had reportedly shared her anger with others and the ISI, which is always on the lookout for such officers, got wind of this
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, who has undertaken this visit at the invitation of Maliki, is expected to meet with several leaders from the Sunni, Shia and Kurdish parties.
'Four vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices detonated in the Iraqi capital in the span of 90 minutes this morning,' the US military said. 'Initial reports indicate 26 people died in the blasts, with at least 21 more wounded.'
This is a major blow to US efforts to involve the international community in rebuilding Iraq.
The targets were the Red Cross headquarters and four police stations.
The Aike Hotel was housing the staff of the US television network NBC.
More than 64 people -- 31 Iraqis, 12 Filipinos, 10 Poles, 10 Hungarians and an American -- were injured when two trucks tried to ram into Camp Charlie in south Baghdad.
At least 36 Iraqis were feared killed in a suicide car bomb attack on a recruiting centre for the New Iraqi Army in southeastern Baghdad on Wednesday.
US military vehicles have surrounded the the site of the bombing.
