Baghdad (Iraq)

Michael Hastings' death remains under investigation

2013-06-19 03:05:00

Authorities are continuing to sort out the details of an auto accident that apparently claimed the life of award-winning journalist Michael Hastings. The death of the 33-year-old Hastings was announced by his employer, BuzzFeed, which said he died in...

Michael Hastings dies at 33; his article led general to resign

2013-06-18 21:01:00

Michael Hastings, an aggressive and iconoclastic journalist whose reporting exposed the vagaries of the war in Iraq and helped bring down the top U.S. general in Afghanistan, died early Tuesday in a car crash in Los Angeles, according to two of his...

Car bombings in Iraq kill at least 57

2013-06-10 18:31:00

BAGHDAD — Car bombings rocked central and northern Iraq on Monday, killing at least 57 people. Attackers targeted marketgoers early in the morning and hit police and army posts after sunset. Security forces scrambled to contain the violence,...

Car bombings, shooting in Iraq kill at least 17

2013-05-16 08:06:00

BAGHDAD — Car bombs struck Shiite neighborhoods of the Iraqi capital and a northern city Thursday, killing 16 people, while gunmen in Baghdad shot dead the brother of a Sunni lawmaker, officials said. The attacks followed a wave of bombings...

Bombings kill at least 57 in Baghdad as Iraq security erodes

2013-05-27 10:06:00

BAGHDAD — A wave of car bombings tore through mostly Shiite Muslim neighborhoods in and around the capital Monday, leaving at least 57 dead in the latest outburst of an unusually intense wave of bloodshed roiling Iraq. The blasts are the latest...

Dozens killed in wave of bombings in Iraq

2013-05-20 04:53:00

A string of car bombs and shootings tore through Shiite and Sunni areas of Iraq on Monday, killing at least 57 people and escalating fears of a return to widespread sectarian bloodletting, officials said The attacks, some of which hit market places...

Iraq car bombings leave dozens dead

2013-05-20 18:44:00

BAGHDAD — Car bombs around Iraq killed at least 65 people Monday amid the worst wave of violence in the country since U.S. troops withdrew a year and a half ago. The attacks, which occurred along busy commercial streets in Shiite and Sunni areas,...

Car bombs in Iraq kill at least 65 people

2013-05-20 09:18:00

BAGHDAD -- Car bombs around Iraq killed at least 65 people Monday as the country's worst wave of violence since U.S. troops withdrew a year and a half ago continued. The attacks that occurred by busy commercial streets in Shiite and Sunni areas followed...

Bombings in Iraq leave at least 70 dead

2013-05-17 13:18:00

BAGHDAD — Bombings in Iraq near a Sunni Muslim mosque, a busy shopping street and a funeral procession left at least 70 people dead Friday as the security situation continued to show signs of unraveling. The explosions brought the week’s...

Sword of division is poised over Iraq

2013-05-10 16:46:00

BAGHDAD — Less than a year and a half after the last U.S. troops left, Iraq's political leaders are openly debating the prospect of two dangerous paths for their country: de facto division or civil war. Perhaps both. Tension between the Shiite...

Multiple bombings kill more than 50 in Iraq

2013-05-27 17:57:00

BAGHDAD — In apparently coordinated attacks, at least 10 bombings shattered Iraqi neighborhoods Monday, killing at least 53 people, injuring more than 200 and contributing to fears that the country's tenuous hold on security is slipping away....

Iraq's great divider

2013-03-26 00:00:00

Iraq is on its way to dissolution, and the United States is doing nothing to stop it. And if you ask people in Iraq, it may even be abetting it. With very few exceptions, an important event in Iraq went unnoticed in the U.S. media this month. Prime...

Iraqi firefighters extinguish a fire at the scene of a car bomb attack in Baghdad on Monday. A parked car bomb explosion in the busy commercial Sadoun Street in central Baghdad, one of a number of bombings in and around the capital, killed and wounded scores of people, police said.

2013-05-27 00:00:00

Destroyed cars litter the scene of a car bomb attack Sunday in the Ameen neighborhood of eastern Baghdad. A series of car bombs exploded within minutes of each other as Iraqis were out shopping in and around Baghdad, killing as many as 28 people.

2013-02-17 14:06:00

JJ Phillips as Kev and Anish Jethmalani as Musa in "Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo."

2013-02-12 15:03:00