TEHRAN (AP) — Iran promised Sunday it would help curb raging violence in Iraq, saying it has been cracking down on Al Qaeda militants on its soil — with arrests as recent as last week — and agreeing on closer security cooperation with Iraq’s visiting Shiite prime minister. Iraq’s Ibrahim …

BAGHDAD (AP) — Suicide bombers killed 22 people in the Baghdad area Sunday, as insurgents stepped up a relentless campaign that claimed more than 90 lives a night before in a horrific bombing south of the capital. The government filed its first criminal case against Saddam Hussein for a 1982 …

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (AP) — A rocket fired from Gaza killed a young Israeli woman Thursday, hours after Israeli forces raided the home of a 67-year-old British citizen in West Bank and killed a fighter — incidents that further shook a five-month truce already threatened this week by a suicide bombing.