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6 car bombs in 2 hours: 13 dead

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Car bombs rocked a number of predominantly Shiite Muslim neighborhoods of Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 13 people and wounding 53 others, police officials told CNN.

 

Six car bombs detonated Monday in five neighborhoods across Baghdad within a period of about two hours, police said.

 

The United Nations said 2013 was the deadliest year in Iraq since 2008, with almost 8,000 people killed in violence, most of them civilians.

 

On Saturday, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden talked with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki about U.S. support for Iraq’s fight against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, a group trying to overthrow the Iraqi government.

 

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Car bombs in Baghdad; 25 dead

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iraq-augustAt least 25 people were killed and 70 others were wounded in a wave of car bombs across Baghdad on Thursday, police said.

Eight bombings took place in several of the Iraqi capital’s neighborhoods. Most of the explosions occurred in Shiite areas.

July was the deadliest month in Iraq in the last five years since the peak of sectarian violence in 2006 and 2007. According to the United Nations, 1,057 Iraqis were killed and another 2,326 were wounded in acts of terrorism and violence last month.

Over the last two weeks, Iraqi security forces have been conducting a large-scale operation called “The Revenge For The Martyrs.” The goal is to track down al Qaeda members in and around Baghdad. Al Qaeda in Iraq is a Sunni militant movement.

So far, hundreds of people have been arrested, according to the Baghdad operation military command website.

Ossama al-Nujaifi, the country’s parliament speaker and a Sunni, strongly criticized the operation in a recent statement and blamed Iraqi security forces for not been able to protect the citizenry.