Three car bombs target Baghdad neighborhoods

Three suicide bombings claimed by ISIS across Baghdad killed at least 100 people on Wednesday, Iraqi police and hospital sources said, in the deadliest attacks in the Iraqi capital this year.

Security has gradually improved in Baghdad, which was the target of daily bombings a decade ago, but violence against security forces and Shiite Muslim civilians is still frequent. Large blasts sometimes set off reprisal attacks against the minority Sunni community.

The fight against ISIS, which seized about a third of Iraq's territory in 2014, has exacerbated a long-running sectarian conflict in Iraq mostly between Sunnis and the Shiite majority that came to power after the U.S.-led invasion in 2003...
  [alarabiya.net/ Reuters]
11/5/16
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