Back-to-back bomb blasts ripped through one of the holiest cities in Shiite Islam Sunday, killing at least 10 people in a community still reeling from a deadly bus hijacking earlier this month that left Iraq's Shiites again feeling hunted.Full story
Iraq's highest court has convicted two men in the 2005 kidnapping of three Romanian journalists and sentenced them to life in prison, a judicial official said Saturday. Full story
The trip was intended to give Tabarak Thaer a glimpse of the world beyond Iraq's violence and misery. Instead, it brought the 10-year-old face to face with terror when insurgents boarded the bus she was riding, forced the male passengers off, and killed them. Full story
A security officer inspects the remains of a vehicle used in a bomb attack in Kerbala, 80 km southwest of Baghdad September 25, 2011. Four successive blasts hit the Iraqi city of Kerbala on Sunday, killing at least 16 people and wounding dozens more as they lined up outside a local government buil
Tabarak Thaer speaks on the phone in the holy city of Karbala, 80 kilometers south of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday Sept. 15, 2011. Tabarak is a survivor of a hijacking Monday Sept. 12, 2011 in Iraq's Sunni-dominated western Anbar province that left 22 Shiite pilgrims dead. The passengers were from Karb
Residents wheel a stretcher carrying a wounded woman after a bomb attack targeted Shi'ite pilgrims commemorating the religious ceremony of Arbain, outside a hospital in Kerbala, 80 km southwest of Baghdad January 24, 2011. Ten people were killed in a second bomb blast targeting Shi'ite pilgrims in
