Suicide Bomber Kills 12 in Iraq

Police in southern Iraq say a suicide car bomber has detonated his explosive-rigged vehicle at a security checkpoint, killing at least 12 people. Officials say 60 people were wounded in the blast Sunday at the northern entrance of the Shi'ite-dominated city of Hillah, nearly 100 kilometers south of Baghdad. Iraq has been experiencing its worst violence in recent years, driven primarily by widespread discontent among its Sunni Arab minority and by the civil war in neighboring Syria....

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