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A Kurdish rebel leader in northern Iraq is vowing to take the group's battle for autonomy deep inside Turkey if its cross-border airstrikes do not stop.

Iraqi security forces were on high alert Sunday around Baghdad and in the Sunni heartland north of the capital as the country marked the one-year anniversary of Saddam Hussein's execution.

US forces have captured on Saturday a wanted leader of the Al-Qaeda terrorist network in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, after a raid operation.

A landmine explosion hit a convoy of Turkish trucks in northern Iraq on Saturday, killing one driver and leaving five others injured, Turkey's NTV news channel reported.

Saddam Hussein loyalists gathered at the ousted dictator's graveside on Sunday to mark the first anniversary of his execution, as former opponents expressed joy over the end of his rule.

Iraqi security forces were on high alert Sunday around Baghdad and in the Sunni heartland north of the capital as the country marked the one-year anniversary of Saddam Hussein's execution.

The residents are Kurds, refugees in what was once their own city, who were driven from their homes during Saddam Hussein's notorious Anfal campaign to ''Arabize'' Iraq's fourth-largest city during the 1980s. They returned to Kirkuk...

Cliff Hudson started playing guitar in college. He was passionate about playing, even after graduating and enlisting in the U.S. Marine Corps. While serving in Iraq in 2005, his father-in-law sent him the perfect care package.

Gunmen attacked a police patrol, killing three policemen and set their vehicle ablaze on Saturday in the northern city of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

Gunmen attacked a convoy of trucks in the province of Salahudin north of Baghdad on Sunday, kidnapping 11 truck drivers, a provincial police source said. The unknown gunmen set up a faked checkpoint on the main road near the town of Sulaiman Bek...

Osama bin Laden warned Iraq's Sunni Arabs against fighting al-Qaida and vowed to expand the terror group's holy war to Israel in a new audiotape Saturday, threatening ``blood for blood, destruction for destruction.''

The top U.S. military commander in Iraq said that violent attacks in the country had fallen by 60 percent since June but cautioned that security gains were "tenuous" and "fragile," requiring political and economic progress to cement them.

Every week, more and more Iraqis show up at the airline office, looking for a ticket home. Similar scenes are unfolding at airline offices and bus stations in Jordan and Syria, the countries with the largest Iraqi refugee populations.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki flew to London Saturday for what one of his advisers described as a regularly scheduled medical checkup. Yassin Majeed said al-Maliki had delayed a previous trip because the "security situation did not allow it."

Iraq has pulled back from the brink of civil war, but recent security gains are fragile and still reversible, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus, said on Saturday.

Staff Sgt. Michael Lage was the only survivor of a blast that killed four others. Lage suffered third-degree burns to nearly half his body; part of his nose and ears were missing, and his face, scalp, arms and torso were seared.

The Iraqi army has arrested two senior al-Qaida members, including one of their religious leaders, a military official said Saturday. Iraq army Brig. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi said the two men included the defense minister of the Islamic State of Iraq...

A child was killed and two wounded, including one soldier, by a roadside bomb near an Iraqi army checkpoint in Kirkuk on Friday, police said.

A car bomb exploded in the city’s busiest intersection Friday, killing at least eight and injuring 64 others, underscoring the violence still facing Iraq despite a steep drop in attacks in recent months.

Iraq's interior ministry spokesman said Saturday that 75 percent of al-Qaida in Iraq's terrorist network had been destroyed this year, but the top American commander in the country said the terror group remained his chief concern.