Samarra, Iraq News

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A string of car bombings and shootings across Iraq left more than 50 people dead Monday, authorities said, in what is the latest spate of violence in a country plagued with Sunni-Shiite tension.

TEHRAN At least four Iranian pilgrims were martyred and 17 others injured in a bomb explosion in the Iraqi city of Samarra on Monday, the director of the Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization said.

More than 70 people were killed in a series of car bombings and suicide attacks targeting Shi'ite Muslims across Iraq on Monday, police and medics said, extending the worst sectarian violence since U.S. troops withdrew in December 2011.

At least 57 people die in attacks across Shia areas of Baghdad and Basra as well as Sunni strongholds of Anbar and Samarra A string of car bombs and shootings have torn through Shia and Sunni areas of Iraq on Monday, killing at least 57 people and escalating fears of a return to widespread sectarian bloodletting, officials said.

Iraqi Defence Minister Saadun al-Dulaimi speaks at the Defence Ministry in Baghdad during a memorial for the killing of five soldiers late last month in the mainly Sunni Muslim city of Ramadi, west of the capital on May 5, 2013.

The brother of a victim, killed in Friday's bomb attack, mourns during a funeral in Al-Rashidiyah district of Baghdad.

It's Friday, which means protests take place in Iraq. It's Friday, which means protesters get harassed and targeted by Nouri's forces.

Iraqi soldiers backed by tanks retook control of a Sunni town north of Baghdad on Friday after gunmen withdrew without a fight, although violence erupted at three Sunni mosques and clerics called for the formation of a tribal army to protect Sunni cities.

Iraqi authorities announced on Sunday that they had revoked the operating licenses of pan-Arab broadcaster Al-Jazeera and nine other satellite TV channels, alleging that they are promoting a sectarian agenda as the country grapples with a wave of violence.

Iraqi soldiers backed by tanks retook control of a Sunni town north of Baghdad on Friday after gunmen withdrew without a fight, although violence erupted at three Sunni mosques and clerics called for the formation of a tribal army to protect Sunni cities.

Gun battles between militants and Iraqi forces killed more than 20 people on Wednesday after a raid on a Sunni Muslim protest camp a day before ignited the fiercest clashes since U.S. troops left.