Bombs Kill More Than 35 People Across Iraq -- Reuters
(Reuters) - Bomb attacks in Shi'ite areas of Baghdad and in northern Iraq killed more than 35 people on Wednesday, following weeks of violence by Sunni Islamist insurgents determined to unleash sectarian confrontation.
Tensions between minority Sunni Muslims and the Shi'ites who now lead Iraq are at their highest since U.S. troops pulled out in 2011, with relations coming under more pressure by the day from the largely sectarian conflict in neighboring Syria.
A string of car bombings hit Shi'ite neighborhoods across the capital Baghdad on Wednesday evening, including one outside a cafe and another at a market, killing at least 22 people and wounding dozens more, police said.
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More News On The Continuing Violence In Iraq
Series of deadly bombings across Iraq -- AL Jazeera
Bombings Kill At Least 9 In Iraq -- NPR/AP
Iraq bombings kill 12: officials -- Daily Star
Iraqi police say gunmen open fire on a line of liquor stores in Baghdad, killing 11 people -- Washington Post/AP
Deadly attacks target Iraq liquor stores -- Al Jazeera
Iraq ratifies cluster bomb treaty -- UPI
First Kurdish rebels reach Iraq under Turkish peace plan -- Reuters
First Kurdish fighters from Turkey arrive in Iraq -- Al Arabiya
Attacks on Sunni mosques fuel fears in Iraq -- Daily Star
Iraq’s Political Crisis Spreads To Sports Stadiums -- AL-Monitor
How Baghdad Fuels Iraq's Sectarian Fire -- New York Times
Sword of division is poised over Iraq -- Ned Parker, Stars and Stripes/Los Angeles Times
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