Bombs across Baghdad kill 15, clashes continue in Anbar ---Sources

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The police and medical sources said on Tuesday bombs exploded across the Iraqi capital, killing at least 15 people, a day after police broke up a Sunni Muslim protest camp in a western province.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for any of Tuesday's attacks but al Qaeda's Iraqi affiliate, which was forced underground in 2006 to 2007, has reemerged this year, invigorated by civil war in Syria and Sunni resentment at home.
In the deadliest attack in Baghdad, seven people were killed when two car bombs hit the Shi'ite neighbourhood of Zafaraniya.
The medics and police sources said that in southeastern Baghdad, three mortar rounds landed near a housing complex, killing four people.
They said that a bomb attached to a truck killed the driver and one passenger in the mainly Shi'ite district of Basateen in northern Baghdad and gunmen shot dead one policeman and wounded another in southern part of the capital.
The police and local officials in western Ramadi in Anbar said that clashes between gunmen and security forces are still continuing inside the city.
The Sunni outrage and the violence across Iraq are likely to deepen already severe sectarian rifts.
It said that more than 8,000 people have been killed in such violence this year.
After years of reduced bloodshed, the intensity of attacks has dramatically risen since the start of 2013.
Bombings have often targeted cafes and other places where families gathered, as well as the usual military facilities and checkpoints. 

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