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Bomb attacks kill more than 70 Shi'ites across Iraq

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BAGHDAD - More than 70 people were killed in a series of car bombings and suicide attacks targeting Shi'ite Muslims across Iraq on Monday, police and medics said, extending the worst sectarian violence since U.S. troops withdrew in December 2011.

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Militants kill 10 Iraq policemen in checkpoint attacks

RAMADI, Iraq - - Militants killed at least 10 Iraqi policemen in a series of attacks on checkpoints in the West of the country on Sunday, police and local officials said.

World, 20 May 2013

Thirteen killed, 10 police kidnapped in Iraq violence

RAMADI, Iraq - Suspected Sunni Muslim militants killed four state-backed Sunni fighters in Iraq on Saturday, security sources said, apparently viewing them as collaborators with the Shi'ite-led government of a nation plagued by sectarian hatred.

World, 18 May 2013

Two blasts at Iraqi Sunni mosque kill 43

BAQUBA, Iraq - Two bombs exploded outside a Sunni Muslim mosque in the Iraqi city of Baquba as worshippers left Friday prayers, killing at least 43 people in one of the deadliest attacks in a month-long surge in sectarian violence.

World, Top News, 18 May 2013

Insight: Syria's Nusra Front eclipsed by Iraq-based al Qaeda

BEIRUT - The most feared and effective rebel group battling President Bashar al-Assad, the Islamist Nusra Front, is being eclipsed by a more radical jihadi force whose aims go far beyond overthrowing the Syrian leader.

World, Syria, 17 May 2013

Bombers target markets, mosque in Iraq, 25 dead

BAGHDAD - Bombs tore through markets in Baghdad and a suicide attacker blew himself up in a mosque in northern Iraq in violence across the country on Thursday that killed at least 25 people and extended a surge in sectarian-tinged bloodshed.

World, 17 May 2013

Soldier who killed fellow U.S. troops in Iraq gets life sentence

TACOMA, Washington - A U.S. Army sergeant was sentenced to life in prison without parole on Thursday for killing five fellow servicemen in a shooting spree in Iraq, one of the worst cases of violence by an American soldier against other U.S. troops.

World, 17 May 2013

US soldier who killed servicemen in Iraq gets life in prison

TACOMA, Washington - A U.S. Army sergeant on Thursday was sentenced to life in prison without parole for killing five fellow servicemen in a shooting spree in Iraq that was one of the worst instances of violence by an American soldier against other American troops.

World, 16 May 2013

Bombs kill more than 35 people across Iraq

BAGHDAD - 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.

World, 16 May 2013

Judge rules U.S. soldier's killing of five was premeditated

TACOMA, Washington - A military judge ruled on Monday that a U.S. soldier who shot and killed five fellow servicemen at a combat stress clinic in Iraq acted with premeditation, a decision that will almost surely get him life in prison.

World, 14 May 2013

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Iraq blasts hit Sunni areas

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