The United States has put the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq on a terrorism blacklist and offered a $10m reward for information on his whereabouts.

US TROOPS have killed the al-Qaida in Iraq mastermind of the bombing that destroyed the golden dome of a famed sacred Shi’ite shrine last year, the military said yesterday.

US troops killed an al-Qaida leader behind the bombing of twin minarets at Iraq's prized Golden Dome shrine in Samarra, the military said today.

Iraq’s National Security adviser today said authorities had arrested a key al-Qaida suspect – a Tunisian – wanted for the bombing of the Shiite Golden Dome shrine last February in Samarra.