Attacks mostly targeting Baghdad killed 20 people on Friday, with the latest wave of violence leaving around 200 people dead in the past week alone.
Attacks mostly targeting Baghdad killed 20 people on Friday, with the latest wave of violence leaving around 200 people dead in the past week alone.
Officials have voiced concern over a resurgent Al-Qaeda embold
ened by Syria crisis which has provided the terrorist network's front groups with increased room to plan attacks in Iraq.
Attacks on Friday struck in and around Baghdad, the restive province of Diyala, and the main northern city of Mosul, leaving at least 20 dead and dozens of others wounded, security and medical officials said.
Five separate shootings and bombings in the capital, including one adjacent to a mosque, killed at least 11 people, while blasts in the nearby towns of Abu Ghraib and Tarmiyah left three others dead.
Further attacks near Mosul, a mostly Sunni city in restive Nineveh province, killed four people -- two soldiers and two policemen.
Gunmen in Khales, a town in Diyala province, meanwhile killed the imam of a mosque and his guard.
The unrest is part of a surge in bloodshed that has pushed violence to its highest level since 2008.
