Bombings Kill 21 in Baghdad

Iraqi authorities say a series of bombings across the capital, Baghdad, killed at least 21 people and wounded scores more on Monday as security forces battled Sunni Muslim militants around the western cities of Fallujah and Ramadi. The bloodiest attack occurred in the mainly Shi'ite Muslim Abu Dsheer district in southern Baghdad, where a car bomb near a crowded market killed seven people and wounded 18. Five of Monday's bombs targeted mainly Shi'ite districts of the...

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