2006-2007, but insurgents still carry out deadly attacks, especially
around the capital, and deadly car bombs on Sunday shattered a lull in
violence in the lead-up to the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which
started on Saturday.
In Taji, 20 km (12 miles) north of Baghdad, six blasts, including a
car bomb, exploded near a housing complex on Monday, killing 14 people
and wounding 29, sources said. When police arrived at the scene,
another blast killed 10 police officers.
Two car bombs struck near a government building in Sadr City, a poor
Shi'ite neighbourhood in Baghdad, and in the northern mainly Shi'ite
area of Hussainiya, killing in total 16 people and wounding 73, police
said.
In the northern oil city of Kirkuk, four car bombs killed four people
and wounded 15 others. Explosions and gun attacks on security
checkpoints in different parts of the restive eastern province of
Diyala killed six people, including four soldiers and policemen, and
wounded 30, police sources said.
Tensions have been high since the last U.S. troops left in December,
with ongoing political crises between Iraq's main Shi'ite, Sunni and
Kurdish factions.
On Sunday, car bombs in two towns south of Baghdad and in the Iraqi
city of Najaf killed at least 20 people and wounded 80.
Last month at least 237 people were killed and 603 wounded in attacks,
making it one of the bloodiest months since U.S. troops withdrew.
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