The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has said Islamic State fighters reportedly killed up to 670 prisoners in Mosul and committed other abuses in Iraq that amount to crimes against humanity.

At least 1,075 people have been killed in Iraq during June, most of them civilians, according to United Nations human rights monitors.

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A suicide bomber attacked a meeting today of pro-government Sunni sheikhs west of Baghdad, killing at least 23 people, including three US Marines.

Four more US soldiers have been killed in two separate attacks in Iraq over the past 24 hours.

Violence raked the Iraqi capital Baghdad today, with at least 17 people killed by bomb and mortar attacks by early afternoon.

A British soldier was killed when a roadside bomb hit an army patrol in southern Iraq today.

Iraq’s prime minister declared a state of emergency in once peaceful and oil-rich Basra, as the sectarian and militia violence engulfing the country’s capital spread to its southern economic heartland.

A suicide truck bomber set off his explosives today in a public market in the centre of Tal Afar, in the north of Iraq, killing at least 17 people and injuring 35, police said.

IRAQI authorities yesterday filed genocide charges against Saddam Hussein, accusing him and six co-defendants in the 1980s crackdown that killed an estimated 100,000 Kurds.

Iraq’s new electoral law, drawn up in a bid to address the concerns of minorities, is almost certain to guarantee more parliamentary seats for Sunni Arabs, who boycotted the previous vote in January.

IN recent months the level of violence in Iraq has increased with almost daily reports of bombings. Caught in the midst of the chaos are a small minority, the Christian Iraqis.

A car bomb in Baghdad has killed two civilians and wounded four more this morning, police said, a day after Egypt’s top envoy to Iraq was kidnapped in an apparent bid to dissuade the country’s Arab neighbours from strengthening ties to the US-backed government.

An Islamic website statement claimed today that Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi, al-Qaida in Iraq chief, has fled to an unidentified “neighbouring country” with two Arab doctors treating him for gunshot wounds to his lung.

IRAQIS defied violence that killed 44 people and calls for a boycott to cast ballots in Iraq's first free election in a half-century yesterday.

TWO statements have surfaced on the internet from different groups, each claiming to have killed two kidnapped Italian aid workers.

FIERCE gun battles broke out yesterday between Iraqi police and dozens of masked militants roaming the northern city of Mosul, killing 12 Iraqis and wounding 26 others, officials said.

Fierce gun battles broke out in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul today.

ATTACKERS detonated a car bomb near police and government buildings in the western city of Haditha yesterday, killing 10 Iraqis.

Gunmen assassinated a provincial governor yesterday, hours after a suicide attacker detonated a massive car bomb that killed at least 10 and wounded 40, in the worst attack in Baghdad since the United States handed power to an Iraqi interim government on June 28.

INSURGENTS yesterday killed an Iraqi provincial governor and two of his guards in a grenade attack on his convoy.

IRAQ yesterday said the United States was bent on interfering in newly-resumed UN weapons inspections to create a pretext for unleashing a new Gulf War.

US and British warplanes have attacked a ”civilian and services installation” in northern Iraq, killing one civilian, the official Iraqi News Agency claimed.