Tag: Baghdad
4 IS militants killed in operation near Baghdad
Four Islamic State (IS) militants, including a local IS leader, were killed Wednesday in an operation north of the Iraqi…
Updated: 82 die in Baghdad COVID-19 hospital fire
Eighty-two people died and 110 were injured at a Baghdad hospital that had been equipped to house COVID-19 patients
23 COVID-19 patients die in fire at Baghdad ICU
At least 23 people died when a fire broke out on Saturday night in a Covid-19 intensive care unit in…
Iraqi protesters storm US embassy, chant ‘Death to America’
Several thousand Iraqi protesters attacked the US embassy in Baghdad on Tuesday, breaching its outer wall and chanting "Death to…
Iraq deploys forces to protect Baghdad buildings
The Iraq’s elite Counter-Terrorism Service said on Sunday it had deployed in the streets of Baghdad upon Prime Minister Adel…
Baghdad tightens security after protests
Most areas in Baghdad were quiet on Thursday morning as Iraqi authorities enforced a curfew after two days of deadly…
Suicide bomber kills at least 14 in north Baghdad
A suicide bomber attacked a Shiite-majority area of north Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 14 people, security and medical…
Blasts kill at least 27 in Baghdad
Attacks in Baghdad including a suicide bombing inside a restaurant killed 27 people on Saturday, hours before a years-old nightly…
Lebanon detains wife, son of IS chief
Lebanese forces have detained a wife and son of Islamic State group chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi near the Syrian border,…
Jihadists claim Baghdad blasts as Iraq rallies behind Christians
The Islamic State on Sunday claimed responsibility for deadly Baghdad bombings, as the Christians they drove out of Mosul grieved…
Boko Haram voices support for Islamic State’s Baghdadi, Al-Qaeda
The head of Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamists, Abubakar Shekau, has voiced support for the extremist Sunni Islamic State (IS) militant…
Gunmen kill 25 women in Baghdad prostitution raid
Gunmen killed 25 women and wounded at least eight people Saturday when they stormed two buildings in a residential Baghdad…
69 detainees killed in Iraq convoy attack
Sixty-nine detainees were killed in a militant attack on an Iraqi convoy transporting them in an area south of Baghdad…