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                     Restaurant Bombings in Baghdad Kill 21

   by Reuters

   A series of bombs targeting restaurants across Baghdad killed at least
   21 people on Tuesday, police and medics said.

   The Iraqi capital has witnessed a surge in bombings over the past
   month, most claimed by Islamic State militants who have overrun large
   parts of Iraq and neighboring Syria.

   Twelve people were killed in Baghdad's northern Talibiya district when
   a car bomb blew up directly in front of a restaurant and another in the
   parking lot.

   A homemade bomb exploded close to a restaurant in Baghdad's Sheik Omar
   neighborhood, killing two civilians, and two more blasts near
   restaurants in the south of the capital left seven other people dead,
   police and medical sources said.

   Islamic State militants surged toward Baghdad in June after seizing the
   northern city of Mosul but have not captured the capital.
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