BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi police found 15 corpses on Monday, including three women shot in the head, in a bloody start to the holiday ending the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, security sources said.
In other violence, two roadside bombs - one in Baghdad and another just southeast of the capital - killed a total of seven people, police and medics said. This year's Eid al-Fitr festival, marking the end of Ramadan, is filled with uncertainty and apprehension as Sunni insurgents set their sights on Baghdad and politicians struggle to form a power-sharing government capable of tackling them. The Sunni insurgents seized swathes of the north last month, building on gains by comrades in the west of Iraq, and Iraq's U.S.-trained and funded army unravelled in the face of the lighting advance.
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