A U.S. State Department official has highlighted the threat al-Qaida in Iraq poses to the country and its neighbors, as violence in Iraq escalates. Brett McGurk, the deputy assistant secretary of state for Iraq and Iran, told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has significantly increased its attacks in ...

BAGHDAD: Seven car bombs exploded acrossBaghdadon Thursday, killing at least 13 people in apparently coordinated attacks that targeted mainly Shiite Muslim districts, security sources said. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the bombings. But Sunni Islamist militants have been regaining ground in Iraq, particularly in the western province ...