Attacks **rth of Baghdad
killed 11 Iraqi
soldiers on Tuesday, the latest in a protracted surge in bloodshed just a day after officials an**unced results from April's parliamentary election. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, who is seeking a third term in ******, has been held responsible by critics for the deterioration in security but he has blamed external factors such as the civil war in neighbouring Syria. In Tuesday's deadliest attack, gunmen opened fire on a bus transporting
soldiers from the restive **rthern town of Suleiman Bek, according to local official Talib Mohammed al-Bayati. The authorities have trumpeted wide-ranging operations against militants and say that external factors are responsible for the surge in bloodshed.
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