By yesterday, among attacks that killed 18 people and wounded 53 in Iraq's bloodiest day in more than a month, police and hospital medics said.. Five blasts hit the capital. There was also a fatal shooting in the northern city of Mosul.. Violence has fallen in Iraq since a wave of sectarian bloodshed in 2006 and 2007, but insurgents carry out frequent attacks on security forces and civilians to undermine the Shia-led government. The violence threatens the stability of the country following the pullout of U.S. forces in December.. In northwest Baghdad, a parked car exploded outside a busy restaurant in the Shia neighborhood of Shula, killing 13 people and wounding 37, police officials said.. Earlier yesterday, explosions hit two adjacent homes of Baghdad policemen in the predominantly Sunni neighborhood of Amariyah, killing two people and wounding nine, among them three children. One policemen was killed and the other was wounded
By yesterday, among attacks that killed 18 people and wounded 53 in Iraq's bloodiest day in more than a month, police and hospital medics said.. Five blasts hit the capital. There was also a fatal shooting in the northern city of Mosul.. Violence has fallen in Iraq since a wave of sectarian bloodshed in 2006 and 2007, but insurgents carry out frequent attacks on security forces and civilians to undermine the Shia-led government. The violence threatens the stability of the country following the pullout of U.S. forces in December.. In northwest Baghdad, a parked car exploded outside a busy restaurant in the Shia neighborhood of Shula, killing 13 people and wounding 37, police officials said.. Earlier yesterday, explosions hit two adjacent homes of Baghdad policemen in the predominantly Sunni neighborhood of Amariyah, killing two people and wounding nine, among them three children. One policemen was killed and the other was wounded
