Wave of explosions and shootings across country kill more than 100 on worst day since withdrawal of US troops
Associated Press in Baghdad, July 23, 2012

A string of bombings and shootings have killed at least 106 people and injured nearly 200 across Iraq, officials said, in the nation's deadliest day in more than two years.

The co-ordinated attacks in 15 cities on Monday come days after the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq warned in a statement that the group was reorganising in areas from which it retreated before US troops left the country last December.

The blasts all took place within a few hours of each other. They struck mostly at security forces and government officials [....]

The worst attack happened in the town of Taji, about 12 miles (20km) north of the capital where a double bombing killed at least 41 people. The blasts were timed to hit as police rushed to help victims from a series of five explosions minutes earlier.

And in a brazen attack on Iraq's military, three carloads of gunmen pulled up at an army base near the north-eastern town of town of Udaim and started firing at forces [....]