BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Car bombs, suicide attacks and gun battles in cities across northern Iraq killed nearly 40 people on Monday in worsening unrest that has heightened fears of a return to sectarian civil war.
No group claimed responsibility for the series of attacks, but officials blame most of the violence that has killed nearly 2,000 people since April on Sunni Islamist insurgents linked to al Qaeda's local wing.
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