Tensions between Iraq’s Sunni

Bombs exploded near mosques in Baghdad and north of the capital on Friday after four days of protests and fighting in Sunni areas in western and northern provinces. At

One car bomb exploded

The brazen attacks in broad daylight will fan concerns about Iraq’s fragile security, which has come under growing strain as the increasingly sectarian conflict

A government-backed Awakening Council group leader and one of his group members were killed when gunmen in their truck opened fire from their assault rifles on a checkpoint manned

The attack came as Iraq’s Shi’ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is locked in a feud with ethnic Kurds in the north over disputed oilfields.

Thursday’s attack came despite a massive security operation mounted to safeguard the millions of pilgrims travelling to and from Karbala for the conclusion of Arbaeen commemorations.

“The Kurdish region could become a model for Sunnis in Anbar

The raids and detention of the Sunni minister’s staff came hours after President Jalal Talabani, a Kurd who often mediated among the fractious Sunni, Shi’ite and Kurdish

The casualty toll was high because the attacker blew up the car while large numbers of soldiers were walking to and from a parking area for waiting minibuses that take them

Four car bombs in the Taji neighbourhood in the north of the city killed at least six and injured eight others, police sources told Al Jazeera on Sunday. The back-to-back blasts began

Hashemi, a Sunni

Many of those killed were security forces – who appear to have been a prime target, correspondents say.

One of the worst-

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