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Attacks targeting soldiers, militia kill 7 in Iraq

By Sameer Yacoub
Published May 16, 2014 5:23pm ET
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Attacks targeting soldiers, militia kill 7 in Iraq
Mourners chant slogans against the al-Qaida breakaway group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), while carrying a flag-draped coffin of Ahmed Marzouk an Iraqi officer who was killed, said his family, in a fake checkpoint on Thursday, during his funeral procession in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, May 16, 2014. Bombings and shootings around Iraq's capital, including a deadly attack involving militants using a fake checkpoint to target army officers, killed and wounded dozens of people on Thursday, officials said. (AP Photo/ Jaber al-Helo) | Jaber al-Helo

BAGHDAD (AP) — Separate attacks in Iraq killed five members of an anti-militant Sunni militia and two soldiers Friday as an al-Qaida splinter group claimed responsibility for a series of Baghdad bombings that killed at least 19 people the day before.

In one of Friday’s attacks, police said gunmen in a speeding car opened fire on a security checkpoint manned by anti-al-Qaida Sunni fighters near the town of Balad, 80 kilometers (50 miles) north of Baghdad. The attack killed three Sunni fighters and wounded four, police said.

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