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A wave of violent bombings and shootings across Iraq on Monday has left over 90 people dead and many hundreds wounded, according to various reports, making it the most deadly day since most US troops left the war-ravaged country last year.
The violence occurred in over twenty separate attacks that spanned more than a dozen cities across Iraq, but the most devastating bombings occurred in and around Baghdad, the nation's capital.
Reutersreports that "at least 223 people" were wounded in the string of attacks that targeted mostly Shi'ite areas, and included reports of the following incidents:
Additionally, at least 15 Iraqi soldiers were killed and four others injured after gunmen attacked a military base in Salah Din province, an army official told Al Jazeera.
No group (or groups) has yet taken responsibility for the carnage, but reporting by The Guardian makes note that the "attacks come days after the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq warned in a statement that the group was reorganising in areas from which it retreated before US troops left the country last December."
Monday's attacks continue a pattern of violence that has engulfed Iraq since the US invasion in 2003, and speak to the deep sectarian divisions unleashed following the foreign occupation that "officially ended" at the end of 2011. In June, a series of explosions killed 84 people and Monday's fresh wave of killings comes just a day after a spate of bombings across the country killed at least 20 people and wounded 88 others and coincided with the beginning of Ramadan in Iraq on Saturday.
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A wave of violent bombings and shootings across Iraq on Monday has left over 90 people dead and many hundreds wounded, according to various reports, making it the most deadly day since most US troops left the war-ravaged country last year.
The violence occurred in over twenty separate attacks that spanned more than a dozen cities across Iraq, but the most devastating bombings occurred in and around Baghdad, the nation's capital.
Reutersreports that "at least 223 people" were wounded in the string of attacks that targeted mostly Shi'ite areas, and included reports of the following incidents:
Additionally, at least 15 Iraqi soldiers were killed and four others injured after gunmen attacked a military base in Salah Din province, an army official told Al Jazeera.
No group (or groups) has yet taken responsibility for the carnage, but reporting by The Guardian makes note that the "attacks come days after the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq warned in a statement that the group was reorganising in areas from which it retreated before US troops left the country last December."
Monday's attacks continue a pattern of violence that has engulfed Iraq since the US invasion in 2003, and speak to the deep sectarian divisions unleashed following the foreign occupation that "officially ended" at the end of 2011. In June, a series of explosions killed 84 people and Monday's fresh wave of killings comes just a day after a spate of bombings across the country killed at least 20 people and wounded 88 others and coincided with the beginning of Ramadan in Iraq on Saturday.
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A wave of violent bombings and shootings across Iraq on Monday has left over 90 people dead and many hundreds wounded, according to various reports, making it the most deadly day since most US troops left the war-ravaged country last year.
The violence occurred in over twenty separate attacks that spanned more than a dozen cities across Iraq, but the most devastating bombings occurred in and around Baghdad, the nation's capital.
Reutersreports that "at least 223 people" were wounded in the string of attacks that targeted mostly Shi'ite areas, and included reports of the following incidents:
Additionally, at least 15 Iraqi soldiers were killed and four others injured after gunmen attacked a military base in Salah Din province, an army official told Al Jazeera.
No group (or groups) has yet taken responsibility for the carnage, but reporting by The Guardian makes note that the "attacks come days after the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq warned in a statement that the group was reorganising in areas from which it retreated before US troops left the country last December."
Monday's attacks continue a pattern of violence that has engulfed Iraq since the US invasion in 2003, and speak to the deep sectarian divisions unleashed following the foreign occupation that "officially ended" at the end of 2011. In June, a series of explosions killed 84 people and Monday's fresh wave of killings comes just a day after a spate of bombings across the country killed at least 20 people and wounded 88 others and coincided with the beginning of Ramadan in Iraq on Saturday.
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