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Two separate suicide bombings killed up to 69 people in Iraq, while the suspected leader of an al Qaeda-linked militant network was captured by Iraqi forces.

The soldiers had barely arrived in Iraq before they got new orders -- get ready for Afghanistan.

A female suicide bomber attacked a procession of Shiite pilgrims many of them women and children south of Baghdad on Friday ...

The prime minister is credited with a drop in violence in once-lawless parts of Iraq.

A young Sunni man strolling along the Tigris River hesitated when asked whom he had voted for in provincial elections today.

A sculpture honoring an Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at former President George W. Bush has been removed, the director of an Iraqi orphanage said Saturday.

Voting in Iraq began early Saturday in the war-ravaged country's important provincial elections.

Saturday's vote will be country's first since '05 and will determine leaders of 14 of 18 provinces.

An election in two days in Iraq's most violent province, where al Qaeda and other insurgents are making a last stand, could bring Sunni Arabs back into power and ease resentment that has fueled the bloodshed.