Iraq attacks kill 41 as 2013 death toll tops 5,800

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Baquba (Iraq) (AFP) - A bombing at a market north of Baghdad was the deadliest in violence that killed 41 people Thursday, as the year's death toll topped 5,800 amid a surge in unrest. The flare-up has prompted Baghdad to appeal for international help in fighting the country's worst bloodshed since 2008, just months before its first general election in four years. Officials have voiced concern over a resurgent Al-Qaeda emboldened by the civil war in neighbouring Syria which has provided the jihadist network's front groups with increased room to plan and carry out attacks in Iraq. Thursday's violence came a day after a spate of attacks, most of them car bombs targeting Shiite neighbourhoods of Baghdad, killed 59 people and wounded more than 100 in Iraq's highest death toll of the month.

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