Bombings in Iraq on Wednesday killed at least 19 people and wounded 58, mainly around Nineveh province, where political tensions have recently flared between Arabs and Kurds.
Bombings in Iraq kill at least 19, wound some 60
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Arab-Kurd Tensions Could Threaten Iraq’s Peace
Even as Iraq’s Sunni-Shi’ite divide appears to be tenuously mending, another seam in the country’s patchwork multiethnic and sectarian society is on the verge of unraveling. Territorial disputes between Arabs and Kurds — in the provinces of Nineveh, Kirkuk and Diyala — now pose a serious risk of violence. In recent months, long-standing hostility between the two communities has escalated, whipped up by resurgent Arab secular nationalism
In Mosul, Iraq’s Insurgency Refuses to Be Tamed
Mosul remains at war. Although the conflict in most parts of Iraq has largely subsided — the uneasy peace punctured only sporadically by spurts of bloodshed — it isn’t over in Mosul.