Attacks in
Iraq left 12 people dead Tuesday while security forces said they killed 25
militants near Baghdad amid worries insurgents are encroaching on the capital weeks ahead of elections. The latest violence is part of a protracted surge in nationwide bloodshed that has left more than 2,400 people dead since the start of the year and sparked fears
Iraq is slipping back into the all-out sectarian conflict that plagued it in 2006-07. The unrest has been driven principally by anger in the Sunni Arab community over alleged mistreatment at the hands of the Shiite-led government and security forces, as well as spillover from the civil war in neighbouring Syria. In Tuesday's bloodiest incident,
soldiers killed 25
militants in an
ambush southwest of Baghdad, the capital's security spokesman Brigadier General Saad Maan said.
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