A spate of bombings and shootings across Iraq has killed at least 73 people on one of the bloodiest days in the country in months.
Al-Qaeda-linked militants have destroyed two tanks and captured some police stations in clashes in the central Iraqi cities of Ramadi and Fallujah.
A local council leader says pro-government tribal forces are preparing to enter Fallujah, where an unknown number of Al-Qaeda-linked militants remain.
There are reports of more fighting in Iraq's western Anbar Province, where security forces are trying to oust insurgents who have seized parts of two cities.
The apparent departure by militants suggested there would be no need for major battles to reclaim two Iraqi cities in the western Anbar Province invaded last week by the Al-Qaeda-linked fighters.
The Iraqi Army says it is delaying an all-out attack on the center of the city of Fallujah -- which is held by Al-Qaeda-linked militants -- in order to avoid civilian casualties.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has pledged to defeat "all terrorist groups" in the restive Anbar Province as Iraqi security forces and Sunni tribesmen continued to battle Al-Qaeda militants in the central cities of Fallujah and Ramadi.
Iraqi security forces and Sunni tribesmen continue to fight Al-Qaeda militants in the central cities of Ramadi and Fallujah.
Iraqi security forces and allied tribesmen have retaken areas in the central cities of Ramadi and Fallujah from Islamist insurgents.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has said the military will leave cities in Anbar Province where deadly clashes took place after a Sunni antigovernment protest camp was dismantled.
Iraq said it had executed 11 people convicted of crimes related to "terrorist attacks."
Iraqi officials say a suicide attack northwest of Baghdad killed at least five police officers.
The UN refugee agency says thousands of Syrian refugees have been crossing into Iraq's Kurdish region.
Iraqis were voting for local officials in the country's first elections since the U.S. military withdrawal.
The Iraqi Football Association is denying reports that it is negotiating with former Argentina football star Diego Maradona to take over as coach of the national team.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is in Baghdad for talks with Iraqi officials.
The United Nations’ special representative for Iraq says 3,000 residents of the camp that's served as a base for an Iranian exile group have moved to a transit site.
Only four days after Iraq sealed its border with Syria, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has ordered all border posts to be reopened to refugees fleeing the violence in Syria and started preparations to house the expected influx of people.
A press freedom group in Iraq says a media commission with close ties to the government has ordered the closure of dozens of news organizations.
Iraq's fragile coalition government is pinning its hopes on a network of closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras to show it can bring some measure of security to Baghdad following the withdrawal of U.S. troops last December.
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