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Attacks mainly targeting Iraqi security forces killed 16 people on Tuesday, bringing July's death toll to 626, the highest monthly figure in a year marked by spiralling violence.
A further 1,395 people were wounded up to July 23, according to reports from security and medical sources.

The second-deadliest month of the year so far was May, when 614 people died in attacks and 1,550 were wounded. More than 2,800 people have been killed so far this year. More than 450 people have been killed each month since April.
Much of the violence on Tuesday was centred in northern Iraq.
In Nineveh province, four kidnapped police were found shot dead, and gunmen also killed a prison guard, a barber and three traders from Baghdad at a sheep market.
Kirkuk province was hit by attacks that killed two anti-al-Qaeda militiamen, a Kurdish security force member and another man, and wounded a policeman.
A bombing killed one person and wounded another near the Diyala provincial capital of Baquba, while gunmen killed two police and wounded five in an attack at a checkpoint near the northern town of Baiji.
Iraq has faced years of attacks by militants, but analysts say widespread discontent among members of its Sunni Arab minority that the government has failed to address has fuelled the surge in unrest this year.


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The aftermath of a car bomb attack in Baghdad. Photo: AP

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Handcuffed al-Qaeda suspects in Baghdad in 2010.

Inside the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in outer Baghdad, where US military abuse of prisoners caused worldwide outrage in 2004.Photos: AP

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Attackstargeting Iraqi security forces killed 16 people on Tuesday, bringing July's death toll to 626


Attacks mainly targeting Iraqi security forces killed 16 people on Tuesday, bringing July's death toll to 626, the highest monthly figure in a year marked by spiralling violence. A further 1,395 people were wounded up to July 23, according to reports from security and medical sources.
