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Violence surges in Iraq’s Anbar province

At least 18 people, including two soldiers, have been killed in separate attacks in Iraq's volatile western province of Anbar, medical and security officials say, in a surge in violence before parliamentary elections. At least 16 civilians were killed when mortar shells landed upon houses in Fallujah, a key city of Sunni-dominated Anbar, Ahmed al-Shami, […]

Al Jazeera reports:

At least 18 people, including two soldiers, have been killed in separate attacks in Iraq's volatile western province of Anbar, medical and security officials say, in a surge in violence before parliamentary elections.

At least 16 civilians were killed when mortar shells landed upon houses in Fallujah, a key city of Sunni-dominated Anbar, Ahmed al-Shami, spokesman for the Fallujah Hospital, said on Wednesday.