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Bombs in Baghdad and northern Iraq killed at least 41 people and wounded more than 80 on Thursday, police said, just over a week after U.S. troops handed security in city centers to local forces.

The head of the largest Sunni bloc in the Iraqi Parliament was gunned down Friday while presiding over prayers at a mosque in downtown Baghdad.

A US soldier is charged with the murder of five comrades a day after a shooting at a clinic in a Baghdad army base.

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