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A car bomb has exploded near a Shia place of worship in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, Reuters news agency reported.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The blast on Wednesday in Baghdad’s northwestern Kasra district killed at least 35 people and wounded 55 more, Al Jazeera has learned.<\/span> Source:<\/span> Aljazeera<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 A car bomb has exploded near a Shia place of worship in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, Reuters news agency reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
It was not immediately clear who had carried out the attack, Reuters said.<\/span>
Sunni Muslim groups have been regaining momentum and striking on a near-daily basis in Iraq this year.<\/span>
About 800 Iraqis were killed in August, according to the United Nations, with more than a third of the deadly attacks happening in Baghdad.<\/span>
The bloodshed, 18 months after U.S. troops withdrew from Iraq, has stirred concerns about a return to the sectarian violence between 2006 and 2007, when the monthly death toll sometimes topped 3,000.<\/span>
Rising sectarianism may be tied to the war in neighboring Syria, where President Bashar al-Assad, a member of the Shia offshoot Alawite community, is waging war against a broad opposition constituted primarily of Sunni Muslims.<\/span>
With Hezbollah militias coming to the aid of the mostly Shia Syrian armed forces, and al-Qaeda in Iraq sending personnel to fight alongside the rebels, many fear that spillover from Syria will reignite Sunni-Shia violence in Iraq.<\/span><\/p>\n