More than 70 people have been killed in a series of car
bombings and suicide attacks targeting Shi'ite Muslims across
Iraq, police and medics say, extending the worst sectarian
violence since US troops withdrew in December 2011.
At least 22 people were killed in a series of blasts in
Shi'ite neighbourhoods of Baghdad on Thursday, police sources
said, as Iraq's precarious sectarian balance comes under
growing strain.
Five car bombs killed at least 34 people in Shi'ite areas of
Iraq, police and medics said, as sectarian and ethnic
tensions intensify ahead of provincial elections in April.
A suicide bomber driving a car has killed at least 27 Shi'ite
Muslims at a bus station in the Iraqi town of Mussayab,
police and medics say, as they were gathering to return home
from a religious rite.
Coordinated bomb attacks have killed more than 30 people
across Iraq, the latest violence in an insurgency the
government has failed to quell more than nine months after
the last U.S. troops withdrew.
A series of bombings and shootings has killed more than 70
people across Iraq in a bloody day of attacks underscoring
the country's struggle with a stubborn insurgency more than
half a year after the US military withdrew.
Car bombs in two towns south of Baghdad and in the Iraqi city
of Najaf have killed 20 people and wounded 80, police and
hospital sources said, in one of the most violent days of the
past two weeks.
Ten people were killed and 18 others wounded when two
explosions struck a popular coffee shop in the restive Iraqi
province of Diyala, security sources said.
More than 30 bombs struck cities and towns across Iraq on
Tuesday, killing at least 52 people and wounding about 250,
despite a massive security clampdown ahead of next week's
Arab League summit in Baghdad.
A militia loyal to Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr freed
an American former soldier on Saturday after holding him
captive in Baghdad for nine months.
