Topic: Islamic State Of Iraq
Al-Qaeda's front group in Iraq on Wednesday claimed much of a spate of nationwide violence a month ago that left 74 people dead in the country's bloodiest day in more than a year.The statement from the Islamic State of ...
Iraq does not tax its citizens, but Abu Jassem al-Juburi, who runs a gas station in Mosul, still hands over a chunk of his income every month to the group that holds sway there: Al-Qaeda.Dramatically weakened nationwide since it wrought vicious ...
Al-Qaeda's front group in Iraq said it has launched a campaign of 100 attacks across the country since the middle of August, in a statement seen on Saturday by AFP.The Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) said the campaign began on ...
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's Iraqi affiliate has asked Sunni militia members who turned against the insurgency and joined forces with the U.S. military and the Shi'ite-led government to return to its ranks, threatening to attack those who do not ...
Iraq is "delighted" by the news that Osama bin Laden has been killed, Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari told AFP on Monday, noting that thousands of Iraqis had died "because of his ideologies.""We, like many people in the world, are delighted to ...
An Al-Qaeda affiliate in Iraq has claimed responsibility for a recent suicide attack in former dictator Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit that left 58 people dead, a US-based monitoring service said Saturday.The Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) claimed responsibility for ...
A massive car bomb ripped through a funeral ceremony in a Shiite district of Baghdad on Thursday, killing 48 people in Iraq's bloodiest day in more than two months.The blast was the deadliest in a series of bombings Thursday that ...
Egypt's interior minister said on Tuesday that 19 people thought to have links to Al-Qaeda had been arrested in Egypt last month.The group, which included Tunisians and Libyans, "had used Egypt as a transit point from which they would travel ...
Bomb and gun attacks across Iraq killed at least nine people on Sunday, including six members of the Iraqi security forces, security and medical officials said.In a two-hour stint of the early evening, a traffic police colonel, two other police, an ...
Al-Qaeda threats against Christians have led to Christmas festivities being cancelled in the northern Iraqi oil hub of Kirkuk, its Chaldean Catholic archbishop said on Tuesday."The Christians of Kirkuk will not celebrate the feast of Christmas this year, except for masses ...
