Meanwhile: Clashes across Sunni triangle
Clashes across Sunni triangle
Violence has flared once again across Iraq's Sunni Muslim heartland.
In the worst incident, in the town of Baiji north of the capital Baghdad, a suicide bomb targeting a US military convoy killed 14 Iraqis.
In the city of Ramadi, to the west of Baghdad, clashes erupted between insurgents and US troops.
And US bombardments of the city of Falluja, where the Americans say their mission to flush out insurgents is almost complete, have continued.
The US says it is targeting the city's final remaining pockets of resistance.
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