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Bombers hit Iraq provincial compound as attacks kill 19

Attacks including suicide bombings outside a provincial government compound killed 19 people in Iraq Wednesday, just weeks before a general election that will be a key test for security forces. The latest violence comes a amid a protracted surge in bloodshed, fuelled primarily by widespread anger among the Sunni Arab minority, and by the civil […]

Agence France-Presse reports:

Attacks including suicide bombings outside a provincial government compound killed 19 people in Iraq Wednesday, just weeks before a general election that will be a key test for security forces.

The latest violence comes a amid a protracted surge in bloodshed, fuelled primarily by widespread anger among the Sunni Arab minority, and by the civil war in neighbouring Syria.