Iranian Shi'ite Muslim pilgrims walk past a member of Iraq's security personnel in Kerbala, 110 km (70 miles) south of Baghdad, June 7, 2013. REUTERS/Mushtaq Muhammed
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Suicide bombers smashed their cars into a bus full of Iranian Shi'ite Muslim pilgrims and a police checkpoint in Iraq on Friday, killing at least 17 people.
Al Qaeda's local wing and other Sunni insurgents have been on the offensive in an attempt - spurred in part by the mainly Sunni rebellion in neighbouring Syria - to provoke the kind of Shi'ite-Sunni bloodshed that killed thousands in Iraq in 2006-2007.
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