Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki will submit to a grilling Thursday by furious MPs demanding to know how Al-Qaeda bombers slipped past security cordons to launch devastating attacks in Baghdad. Maliki, who sacked the capital's security chief Wednesday evening over the blasts, was called before parliament after the coordinated bombings killed 127 people and wounded 450. Police have claimed ...

Iraqi Interior Minister Jawad al-Bolani is to appear before furious MPs on Thursday after Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki sacked Baghdad's security chief over attacks in the capital that killed 127 people. Maliki acted shortly after police claimed that the bombers, who also wounded around 450 people, were backed by groups in Syria or Saudi Arabia. But later an Al-Qaeda ...

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has sacked Baghdad's security chief over a string of coordinated car and truck bombings claimed by an Al-Qaeda group that killed 127 people. The Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) issued a statement on a forum for Muslim extremists saying it carried out Tuesday's bombings at ministries and courthouses that also wounded 450 people ...

The Al-Qaeda network remains active in northern Iraq and capable of staging bloody attacks like Monday's bombing near Mosul, a US general said on Tuesday. "I think Al-Qaeda of Iraq, which also has teamed up with Islamic State of Iraq, or ISI as we call it, still remains centered with its leadership and its financial capability in northern Iraq ...