Shocking images depicting US soldiers burning the bodies of what appear to be Iraqi insurgents have sparked a military probe.

A truck bomb tore through an outdoor vegetable market in northeastern Iraq, the deadliest of a series of attacks that killed at least 48 people, officials said.

A suicide bomber has slammed his explosive-laden car into a busy cafe in Iraq's capital, part of a day of violence across the country that killed 45 people, authorities said.

An Iraqi sheik cradled his grandson's tightly wrapped body, his face grim and his eyes downcast, trailed by men bearing the coffin of the infant's mother.

Iraq reaches out to travellers as the 'cradle of civilisation', writes Prashant Rao.

A series of coordinated evening blasts in Baghdad and other violence killed at least 67 people in Iraq on Tuesday (local time), officials said.

Iraq's wave of bloodshed has sharply escalated with more than a dozen car bombings across the country.

A New Zealander's dramatic account of a daring secret mission to rescue American hostages has emerged after being left out of the Hollywood hit film Argo.

A wave of bombings has torn through Iraq, killing 65 people on eve of the 10th anniversary of the US-led invasion and showing how unstable Iraq remains.

A decade after Australia joined the invasion of Iraq, demands are still being made for an inquiry into the decision to go to war amid fears the nation could again be dragged into a future conflict in Asia or the Gulf.

Iraqis are not naive. Grim experience of their country's rulers over the past 50 years leads many to suspect them of being self-serving, greedy, brutal, and incompetent.

Adventurous travellers are looking to document the exact geographic intersection of several latitude and longitude point in Iraq and around the world as part of an Internet-based project.

The US President must be allowed to build on his Administration's achievements, writes Reverend Jesse Jackson.

The British-Iraqi man killed in last month's quadruple Alps shooting had access to a bank account linked to Iraq dictator Saddam Hussein.

Former NZ diplomat Warren Searell called Damascus home until the Arab spring made life far too dangerous. This is his story.

Local burger chain BurgerFuel is tapping into the rising wealth of a volatile region with a taste for fast food.

Tame Iti and his colleagues weren't the only ones on trial for the past five weeks. The terrorism claims in the still-unresolved Urewera case have revealed deep divisions over Maori and Pakeha