A candidate for Iraq’s upcoming legislative elections was killed in the explosion of a car bomb in northern Baghdad, the ...

Mashhadani was running as part of the Siyada or Sovereignty party, a Sunni party led by Parliament Speaker Mahmoud ...

This is the most high-profile assassination of these elections and the most high-profile attack in Iraq in recent memory.

Mashhadani, a candidate for Iraq's parliamentary elections, was killed early Wednesday in a bomb blast in northern Baghdad.

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A candidate for Iraq’s upcoming legislative elections was assassinated at dawn on Wednesday in a ...

Safaa al Mashhadani was reportedly killed in a car bombing on October 15 in Tarmiya, a town north of Baghdad. Mashhadani was a candidate with the Sovereignty (Siyada) Alliance, an important Sunni ...

A bomb has exploded on a Syrian Defense Ministry bus in the country's east, killing and wounding several soldiers, according ...