IRAQ WARS - BIO FUEL DAILY

Jul 29, 2013 (AFP)

Attacks mainly targeting Shiite-majority areas of Iraq killed at least 57 people on Monday, and security forces killed 10 militants, officials said, as the inte...

Gunmen execute 14 Shiite truck drivers in Iraq

Jul 25, 2013 (AFP)

Sunni militants summarily executed 14 Shiites on Thursday after setting up a roadblock north of Baghdad, stopping trucks and checking the IDs of drivers to dete...

UN awards Kuwait $1 bn from Iraq invasion fund

Jul 25, 2013 (AFP)

A United Nations body that handles war reparations for Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait said Thursday it had handed over a further $1.07 billion (810 million euro...

Militants kill 15 Iraqi police and soldiers

Jul 24, 2013 (AFP)

Militants killed nine police in an attack with mortars and automatic weapons in Iraq on Wednesday, while 14 people including six soldiers died in other violence...

Iraqi father struggles with pain of three sons lost

Jul 23, 2013 (AFP)

Nadhim al-Juburi weeps in a funeral tent in central Baghdad, mourning two sons killed in a bombing days before the sixth anniversary of a third son's death in a...

Qaeda claims Iraq prison attacks that freed top militants

Jul 23, 2013 (AFP)

An Al-Qaeda front group on Tuesday claimed brazen assaults on Iraqi prisons that freed hundreds of militants including top leaders, killed over 40 people and th...

July deadliest month of 2013 for Iraq

Jul 23, 2013 (AFP)

Attacks including bombings against four Sunni mosques killed 28 people in Iraq on Tuesday, officials said, bringing July's death toll to 638, the highest monthl...

At least 500 escape in deadly assaults on Iraq prisons

Jul 22, 2013 (AFP)

Militants attacked two Iraqi prisons, including notorious Abu Ghraib, with mortars, bombs and gunfire, freeing at least 500 inmates in assaults that cost more t...

Bombs strike favoured Ramadan hangouts in Iraq

Jul 21, 2013 (AFP)

Young Iraqis often spend evenings in cafes after fasting during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, but a string of bombings against the popular hangouts means do...

Global banks eye Iraq but questions remain

Jul 21, 2013 (AFP)

Interest by Citibank and Standard Chartered to expand into Iraq highlights the vast potential of the country's banking sector, but the experience of a global ri...

Iraqis slam government over deadly wave of bombings

Jul 21, 2013 (AFP)

Iraqis roundly condemned the authorities on Sunday for failing to stop a wave of deadly unrest including attacks that killed dozens of people the day before. At...

Three farmers among nine killed in Iraq

Jul 18, 2013 (AFP)

Three farmers were among nine people killed in attacks in Iraq on Thursday, police and doctors said, as the country struggles to curb its worst violence since 2...

Iraq violence kills 10, among them three children

Jul 17, 2013 (AFP)

A bombing killed three children at a popular swimming area in Iraq on Wednesday after a similar attack two days before, while seven people died in other violenc...

UN envoy warns of Iraq's 'dangerous path'

Jul 16, 2013 (AFP)

A UN envoy said Tuesday that nearly 3,000 people have been killed in Iraq in four months and that the country risks stumbling onto a "dangerous path" to disarra...

Four die in Iraq as mortars hit Tigris banks

Jul 15, 2013 (AFP)

Four people were killed and nine wounded when a group of people were struck by mortars as they gathered for a swim on a bank of the Tigris river north of Baghda...

Attacks including series of bombings kill 33 in Iraq

Jul 14, 2013 (AFP)

Violence including an apparently coordinated series of bombings that struck central and southern Iraq on Sunday killed 33 people, sources said, bringing the Jul...

Scores killed in Iraq attacks

Jul 14, 2013 (AFP)

Violence in Iraq, including attacks on two members of a district council in the north, killed eight people on Sunday, officers and doctors said. The attacks are...

Death toll from wave of Iraq violence rises to 51

Jul 11, 2013 (AFP)

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

Memories vivid at Iraq torture centre turned museum

Jul 11, 2013 (AFP)

Kamiran Aziz Ali grimaces and leans forward, his hands behind his back, re-enacting the moment in January 1990 when Saddam Hussein's henchmen flung him into a j...

Iraq violence could spark civil war: UN official

Jul 10, 2013 (AFP)

Violence in Iraq is on the rise and could lead towards civil war, the head of the UN human rights mission warned on Wednesday. "Iraq is really at a crossroads. ...