A series of apparently coordinated bombings in a dozen cities across Iraq left at least 45 people dead and at least 190 others wounded on Tuesday, the ninth anniversary of the US-led offensive that led to the 2003 overthrow of Saddam Hussein.
US marine Sergeant Frank Wuterich was on Tuesday spared a jail sentence for his role in a 2005 massacre of 24 civilians in the Iraqi city of Haditha. The Staff Sergeant now faces only a demotion to the rank of private.
The US sergeant that led a Marine unit accused of killing 24 Iraqi civilians in the town of Haditha after their comrade was killed by a roadside bomb pleaded guilty to a lesser charge Monday. Frank Wuterich now faces a maximum three-month sentence.
A US appeals court ended a lawsuit over a 2004 incident in which four contractors from Blackwater security firm working in Fallujah, Iraq were killed by insurgents. Victims' families reached a deal with the company, ending hopes of a public trial.
With US troops gone for good, will Iraq implode or muddle along? François Picard’s panel looks at the fallout from the deadliest day of sectarian violence in five months.
With US troops gone for good, will Iraq implode or muddle along? François Picard’s panel looks at the fallout from the deadliest day of sectarian violence in five months.
The UK-based NGO Iraq Body Count (IBC) said Monday that the death toll in Iraq since the start of the 2003 US-led invasion up to last month's withdrawal of US forces is at 162,000. The NGO also said 79 per cent of fatalities were civilians.
A suicide bomber set off a car bomb Monday at the Interior Ministry in Baghdad, officials said. The blast killed at least five and wounded dozens of others in the wake of a wave of deadly attacks that struck Baghdad on Thursday.
Baghdad was rocked by 14 deadly bomb blasts on Thursday which killed at least 67 people. The attacks come amid a widening rift between Iraq's Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and Sunni political leaders that threatens to tear the country apart.
The withdrawal of US troops from Iraq left thousands of mercenaries from Uganda out of work. Now many of them have traded in their Pentagon paycheques for ones from the US State department. Meanwhile, four years after the murder of a French aid worker in Burundi, her sister is fighting to find out just how she died. Finally, a 75-year-old from Senegal proves it's never too late to release your first album.
