Islam in Iraq

At least 50 people died in a suicide attacks in a southern Iraqi city on Sept. 14, with more than 80 wounded, a health official and police sources said.

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the attacks.

Two suicide bomb attacks in separate market places in Baghdad claimed the lives of at least 19 people yesterday. 

A suicide bomber targeted Baghdad's main vegetable market killing at least 12 people in the latest attack claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). 

A suicide bomber driving a car killed at least 19 people and wounded 48 others on April 30 in an attack claimed by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) on a group of Shi'ite Muslim pilgrims in a southeastern suburb of Baghdad, Iraqi police sources said.

Sunnis in Iraq do not trust the central government in Baghdad, the country?s deputy president has claimed.

Usama al-Nujayfi - a prominent Sunni - made the claim on June 9, which coincided with the first anniversary of the fall of the northern province of Mosul to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) jihadists.

Iraqi officials say car bombings in and around Baghdad have killed at least six civilians.
                   
A police officer said the deadliest in attacks on April 26 was in the nearby town of Mahmoudiya, about 30 kilometers (20 miles) south of Baghdad, where a car bomb exploded, killing at least four civilians and wounding nine.
                   

A suicide bomber attacked a Shiite-majority area of north Baghdad on Feb. 9, killing at least 14 people, security and medical officials said.
      
The blast in Kadhimiyah, which is home to a revered Shiite shrine, also wounded at least 43 people.
      

Turkey has condemned two separate blasts that rocked the Iraqi capital of Baghdad Turkey has condemned two separate blasts that rocked the Iraqi capital of Baghdad on Jan. 30.

At least 47 people were killed and 99 others wounded in several  explosions in Baghdad and in the central province of Samarra in Iraq.

Turkey has condemned two separate blasts that rocked the Iraqi capital of Baghdad Turkey has condemned two separate blasts that rocked the Iraqi capital of Baghdad on Jan. 30.

At least 47 people were killed and 99 others wounded in several  explosions in Baghdad and in the central province of Samarra in Iraq.

As all eyes were on the presidential race and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s candidacy announcement this week, a group of experts gathered at the offices of the International Strategic Research Organization (USAK) in Ankara to discuss several strategy options in Iraq and what the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’s (ISIL), now known as the Islamic State (IS), next step may be.