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Militants assault government building in Baghdad

By Sinan Salaheddin
Published January 30, 2014 7:30pm ET
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Militants assault government building in Baghdad
Civilians inspect the aftermath of a car bomb attack near the al-Farasha pastry shop in the southeastern district of New Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014. Car bombs and a shooting, mainly in Shiite areas, killed and wounded scores of people in the Iraqi capital on Wednesday, officials said, as authorities released a rare photograph of a man they say is the leader of al-Qaida's local branch. Since late December, members of Iraq's al-Qaida branch have taken over parts of Ramadi, capital of the largely Sunni province of Anbar. They also control the center of the nearby city of Fallujah. Government forces and allied tribes have been trying to wrest control back from the militants. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed) | Khalid Mohammed

BAGHDAD (AP) — Gunmen and suicide bombers staged a brazen assault on a government building in Baghdad, officials said, killing two people in the latest such attack in the heart of the Iraqi capital by militants trying to undermine further the Shiite-led government’s shaky authority.

The firefight at a state-run transportation company was one of several attacks that left 11 dead across the city, and came as Iraq grapples with a stubborn insurgency in the country’s western Anbar province. Government troops are trying to oust al-Qaida-linked fighters and their allies from cities in the area.

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