Attacks kill 10 as Iraq forces hit Anbar militants

Last Updated: Sunday, February 2, 2014, 21:58

Iraqi government forces pressed their assault on militant strongholds in Anbar as attacks elsewhere killed 10 people, with intensifying violence fuelling fears of a return to all-out conflict.

Iraq attacks kill 7 as govt forces hit Anbar militants

Last Updated: Sunday, February 2, 2014, 21:40

Iraqi government forces pressed their assault on militant strongholds in Anbar province today as attacks elsewhere in the country killed seven people, with intensifying violence fuelling fears of a return to all-out conflict.

15 militants killed in Iraq`s Anbar province

Last Updated: Sunday, February 2, 2014, 04:51

At least 15 militants were killed when Iraqi security forces hit militants` positions in restive province of Anbar, security sources said.

Clashes and shelling as 140,000 flee Iraq`s Anbar

Last Updated: Friday, January 24, 2014, 21:18

Violence in parts of Anbar province held by anti-government fighters killed three people as United Nations warned on Friday of Iraq`s worst displacement since its brutal 2006-08 sectarian conflict.

Iraq says air strikes `kill 50 militants` in Anbar

Last Updated: Thursday, January 23, 2014, 00:44

Air strikes against militant targets in Iraq`s restive western province of Anbar killed at least 50 militants, the defence ministry said on Wednesday.

US to ship more ammunition and arms to embattled Iraq

Last Updated: Saturday, January 18, 2014, 06:11

Pentagon says it will soon deliver to Iraq another installment of small arms and ammunition requested by Baghdad as it battles al-Qaida militants for control of Fallujah and cities in Anbar province.

Suicide bomber kills three in Iraq`s Anbar

Last Updated: Friday, January 17, 2014, 15:38

A suicide bomber targeting tribal militia fighting alongside Iraqi security forces in Sunni Arab-majority areas west of Baghdad killed three people, officials said.

Suicide bomber kills three in Iraq`s Anbar

Last Updated: Friday, January 17, 2014, 14:18

A suicide bomber targeting tribal militia fighting alongside Iraqi security forces in Sunni Arab-majority areas west of Baghdad killed three people late on Thursday, officials said.

Iraq forces attack militants as 14 bodies found

Last Updated: Friday, January 17, 2014, 03:05

Iraqi forces attacked a militant stronghold in crisis-hit Anbar province on Thursday, while authorities found 14 bullet-riddled bodies in scenes harkening back to the worst of Iraq`s sectarian war.

Ten killed in renewed Baghdad bloodshed

Last Updated: Wednesday, January 15, 2014, 00:08

Gun and bomb attacks in Baghdad killed 10 people, including a senior judge, in part of a protracted surge in bloodshed ahead of April parliamentary elections.

Sunni gunmen seize more turf in Iraq`s Ramadi: Police

Last Updated: Tuesday, January 14, 2014, 23:53

Sunni fighters including al Qaeda-linked militants have overrun several more areas of Ramadi, one of two Iraqi cities near Baghdad, police said on Tuesday.