A general view shows Tikrit University, where Iraqi special forces clashed with fighters from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) last month, July 18, 2014.

BAGHDAD (AP) - The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a back-to-back twin bombing earlier in the day at an outdoor market in a Shiite-dominated neighborhood of Baghdad that left at ...

BAGHDAD — Islamic State has claimed responsibility for a deadly twin suicide bombing that killed at least 32 people and wounded dozens in central Baghdad. The group said the bombing “targeted ...

Baghdad, founded in 762 CE by Caliph Al-Mansur, was not just another city; it was the beating heart of the Islamic world. The House of Wisdom (Bayt al-Hikma) was the single greatest intellectual ...

The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a suicide attack on a funeral tent north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad that killed 16 people and wounded 34 others.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least nine people were killed in bomb attacks claimed by Islamic State on a Shi'ite Muslim mosque south of Baghdad on Friday, police and medics said.

BAGHDAD (AP) -- A suicide truck bomb in downtown Baghdad killed 115 people and wounded nearly 200 others who were out shopping and celebrating early Sunday ahead of the holiday marking the end of ...

Iraqi officials: Death toll from Islamic State-claimed car bombing in a Shiite area of Baghdad climbs to 45.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Using its own version of "soft" and "hard" power, the Islamic State is crushing resistance across northern Iraq so successfully that its promise to march on Baghdad may no ...

Twin explosions in a Baghdad marketplace killed at least 32 people, shattering a period of relative calm and highlighting Iraq’s challenges amid U.S. withdrawal.