A car bomb in Baghdad’s Shiite Sadr City district has killed 10 people and wounded 25.

As the Iraqi government bolstered Baghdad’s defences yesterday, the Islamic militant group that captured two major cities last week posted graphic photos that appeared to show its fighters massacring dozens of Iraqi soldiers.

A new wave of bombings has caused carnage in Iraq’s capital, Baghdad, killing at least 20 people.

The death toll from a bombing at a funeral in a Shiite neighbourhood in Baghdad has risen to 51, Iraq officials said.

A wave of blasts in Baghdad and other violence has killed at least 47 people in the latest surge of Iraqi bloodshed.

At least 26 people have been killed and dozens of others injured in a wave of bombings in Shiite Muslim areas in and around Baghdad, Iraqi officials said.

A wave of a dozen car bombings hit in and around the Iraqi capital during morning rush hour today, officials said, killing at least 36 people in the latest co-ordinated attack by insurgents determined to undermine the government.

Two car bombs have exploded in sprawling Shiite neighbourhoods of the Iraqi capital killing at least 12 civilians and wounding 30, officials said.

A series of car bombs exploded within minutes of each other as Iraqis were out shopping in and around Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least 35 people in mainly Shiite areas.

A series of car bombs exploded within minutes of each other in and around Baghdad today, killing at least 28 people and wounding dozens in overwhelmingly Shiite areas.

Iraqi militants unleashed a string of bombings and other attacks primarily targeting the country’s Shiite community, leaving at least 40 dead.

Bombings that hit markets and other insurgent strikes primarily targeting Iraq’s Shiite community killed 31 people today, challenging government efforts to promote a sense of stability by preventing attacks during a major Muslim holiday.

At least 69 people were killed in a wave of explosions across Iraq today.

Iraqi teenagers widely perceived to be gay are being brutally killed in Baghdad with Shiite militias distributing lists of targets warning of further assaults, officials and human rights groups say.

Fourteen people were killed and more than 75 injured in a wave of car bombings across Baghdad today as violence surges in Iraq amid an escalating political crisis a month after the US military withdrawal.

A WAVE of bombings targeting Shi’ites in Iraq have killed 72 people, deepening sectarian tensions that exploded after the last American troops left the country in mid- December.

Iraqi Shiite militia fighters led a massive rally of followers of a hardline anti-American cleric today, marching in Baghdad in a show of defiance as Iraqi leaders weigh whether to keep US troops in the country beyond the end of the year.

A rapid-fire series of explosions in and around Baghdad killed 16 people today, including 10 people who died when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowd of police officers, officials said.

A rapid-fire series of explosions in and around Baghdad killed 13 people today, including seven who died when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowd of police officers, officials said.

Three car bombs in a northern Iraqi city killed six people and injured about 35 others today, a police official said.

Anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, who led several Shiite uprisings against American forces in Iraq before travelling to neighbouring Iran three years ago, has returned to Iraq.

Iraq’s president has declared that he will not sign off on the hanging of Tariq Aziz, joining the Vatican and others in objecting to the death sentence for the man who for years was the international face of Saddam Hussein’s regime.

A SERIES of bombs rocked mainly Shi’ite areas of Baghdad yesterday, killing at least 60 people and wounding dozens two days after al-Qaida militants staged a bloodbath when they took hostages in a Christian church.

TWO bombings and a drive-by shooting killed eight people yesterday, a reminder of Iraq’s ongoing instability on a day when President Barack Obama outlined progress toward the impending end of US military operations in the country.

A bomb explosion has killed six people including five civilians in a Shiite slum in eastern Baghdad, Iraqi police and health officials said today.

Weeping and wailing Shiites today buried the last of dozens of bombing victims killed while praying, and their leaders called for a three-day mourning period after the deadliest day in Iraq this year.

A bomb has exploded at a funeral in Baghdad, killing at least nine people.

Scores of people died today as a series of co-ordinated bomb attacks rocked Baghdad.

Four students are among the dead after an explosion in Baghdad today.

IRAQI militias are increasingly torturing and executing men suspected of homosexuality, but the authorities in Baghdad are doing nothing to stop the violence, Human Rights Watch said yesterday.

Gay men are being murdered across Iraq in a systematic campaign by militia, a human rights group said today.

A suicide bomber today killed at least 20 people and injured 40 near a judge’s house in northern Iraq, while bombs in Baghdad killed six people, authorities said.

Iraq’s prime minister said today that the full withdrawal of US combat troops from cities and towns was a message that his country was ready to take over its own security, even as he appealed for national unity after a week of attacks left more than 250 people dead.

A booby-trapped motorcycle exploded in a crowded bazaar today in Baghdad, killing at least 19 people, Iraqi officials said, part of an apparent trend toward increased use of motorcycles to thwart stepped up security measures.

AT LEAST 56 people were killed and more than 100 injured in a bomb attack in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, yesterday.

A THREE-YEAR-OLD Iraqi girl blinded and disfigured in a 2006 Baghdad car bombing has a new set of prosthetic eyes after a trip to London for medical treatment.

At least 56 people were killed today and more than 100 injured in a bomb attack in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.

A three-year-old Iraqi girl who was blinded and disfigured in a 2006 Baghdad car bombing has returned home with a new set of prosthetic eyes after a trip to London for medical treatment.

BOMBS killed at least 21 people across Iraq yesterday, security officials said, two days after a suicide truck bomb in the north of the country killed 73 people in the deadliest attack for more than a year.

A fresh wave of bombings swept the Baghdad area today as Iraq braced itself for more violence ahead of the planned withdrawal of US troops from major cities next week.

A truck bomb exploded near a Shiite mosque just after prayers today, killing at least 55 people and wounding nearly 200 in northern Iraq, police said.

Three American soldiers were killed and nine others wounded in a Baghdad bombing today.

THREE car bombs have exploded in the Shia district of Sadr City in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, yesterday killing at least 41 people, police say.

Belfast’s “peace walls” are getting an artistic facelift, it was revealed today.