Kirkuk Blast

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  Truck Bomb In Northern Iraq Kills At Least 23

  At least 23 people were killed and 60 wounded when a suicide bomber set off a truck bomb near a crowded marketplace in the northern Iraqi town of Tuz Khurmatu, police and medical sources said on Tuesday.

• Blasts Targeting Shiites in Iraq's Kirkuk Kill Four

  A series of blasts outside Shiite prayer halls killed four people and wounded 19 others on Friday in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, police and medical sources said.

• North Iraq Car Bomb Kills Five: Officials

  Twenty more people were wounded by the blast in the northern part of the tinderbox oil hub, which lies at the heart of territory Iraq's Kurds want to incorporate into their autonomous region over the objections of Baghdad.

• 989 killed in Iraq in July, maximum in five years: government

  Violence in Iraq killed 989 people in July, government figures released on Wednesday showed, making it the deadliest month since April 2008.

• Iraq closes Kirkuk cafes after deadly attack

  Authorities in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk have ordered all cafes to be shut down a day after a suicide attack killed 39 people when a bomber detonated his explosives in a crowded coffee shop.

• Bomb attack in Iraqi city of Kirkuk kills 31

  A bomb attack on a tea house in the ethnically mixed Iraqi city of Kirkuk killed at least 31 people on Friday, police and medics said.

• Militants target Iraq security forces as 40 killed

  Militants killed 25 Iraqi security forces in a wave of attacks on Thursday, and 15 other people died in other attacks including 10 mourners in twin bombings, officials said.

• Series of blasts kill five in Iraq, 69 injured

  Four bombings in northern Iraq killed five people and wounded 69 today, officials said, the latest in a spate of violence that has killed more than 370 people so far this month.

• 27 killed, over a hundred injured in a series of car bomb blasts in Iraq

  A series of attacks across Iraq killed 27 people and wounded well over 100 on Monday morning, officials said.

• Wave of Iraq attacks kill 23

  A wave of attacks in Baghdad and north of the capital on Wednesday left at least 23 people dead a day after a Sunni MP was killed in a suicide bombing, amid a worsening political crisis engulfing Iraq.

• Car bombs rip through Iraq, kill 7

  Car bombs ripped through the Iraqi city of Kirkuk killing at least seven and wounding at least 35 people on Wednesday morning.  The blasts struck outside the headquarters of the Kurdish intelligence forces known as the Asayish, on a highway and near a gas station in southern Kirkuk, 300 kilometers north of Baghdad. Emergency services race...