Two Shiite worshippers were gunned down close to the town of Baquba and two Iraqi soldiers were shot dead in the northern city of Mosul on Tuesday, police said. In Berginiyah, northeast of Baghdad and on Baquba's outskirts, men in a car sprayed gunfire at people leaving a mosque after carrying out rituals as part of the Shiite religious ...

Two Shiite worshippers were gunned down on Tuesday close to the town of Baquba while leaving a mosque after carrying out rituals as part of the Shiite religious commemoration of Ashura, police said. "Men in a car opened fire on worshippers who were leaving the mosque, where they were participating in flagellation as part of preparations for Ashura, killing two ...

A spate of shootings and bombings across Iraq on Monday killed four people and wounded 13 others, police and military officials said. American and Iraqi forces also said they had arrested an aide to Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri, the fugitive deputy of Iraq's late dictator Saddam Hussein, near Baquba in Diyala province north of Baghdad. In Monday's deadliest attack ...

Three people were killed and five wounded, one of them a three-year-old child, in attacks in Baghdad and in Diyala province to its north, security officials said on Monday. One man died on Monday when a roadside bomb struck his car in Bohruz district, five kilometres (three miles) south of the Diyala provincial capital Baquba, said an officer from the ...