Baghdad market bomb kills scores

A blast at a market in Baghdad’s Sadr City kills nearly 70 people, six days before US troops are due to leave Iraqi cities.

Iraqi Kurds launch poll campaign

Campaigning gets under way in Iraq’s Kurdish north, one month ahead of elections for its semi-autonomous parliament.

Iraq hit by fresh wave of attacks

Bomb attacks across Iraq kill at least 29 people, days before US troops are due to pull out of Iraqi cities.

Plea from Iraq hostages’ families

Families of the UK hostages held in Iraq speak of their “profound grief” that two are dead and call for the others to be freed.

Iraq karate coach shot and killed

The coach of the Iraq’s national karate team is shot dead by gunmen in the northern city of Mosul, Iraqi police say.

Iraq frees three US contractors

Iraqi police release three of the five US men who were held in connection with the killing of a fellow American last month.

Deadly blast hits southern Iraq

A car bomb kills at least 28 people in southern Iraq, just weeks before US troops are due to withdraw from city centres.

Kidnap hope after Shia’s handover

An imprisoned Iraqi militant whose release has been demanded by the kidnappers of UK hostages is freed, officials say.

Bomb ‘kills seven’ in Baghdad

Seven people have been killed and 24 wounded in a bomb attack on a minibus in southern Baghdad, Iraqi officials say.

Kurds start oil exports from northern Iraq

Iraq’s self-ruled northern Kurdish region begins exporting crude oil to foreign markets for the first time.

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