A suicide car bombing claimed by the Islamic State group killed 12 people at a crowded checkpoint north of Baghdad on Monday, security and medical officials said.
The blast at the entrance to the town of Khales also wounded 37, according to Diyala province police spokesman Colonel Ghalib al-Attiyah and health department spokesman Faris al-Azzawi.
Attiyah said the checkpoint wasRead more
At least 10 people were killed and some 30 others wounded on Monday in a car bomb explosion in the city of Baquba, the capital of Iraq's eastern province of Diyala, a provincial security source told Xinhua.
The attack occurred on Monday evening when a booby-trapped car parking near a popular restaurant detonated in Shiftah area in eastern Baquba, someRead more
Twelve-year-old Iraqi Nejla Imad holds a white table tennis ball against her bat with her thumb, flicks it into the air and sends it bouncing over the net.
She does this with her left hand while sitting in a wheelchair: Imad, like tens of thousands of Iraqis, is a victim of the bombs that have terrorised the country for wellRead more