A spate of bombings have killed at least 35 people across Iraq, in what seems to be revenge for Friday’s deadly assault on a Sunni mosque.
A bomb has also gone off in the relatively stable northern city of Arbil, which is the capital of the semi-autonomous Kurdish region.
Tensions are already running high, but fears are now rising that these revenge attacks could tip the country back into all-out sectarian war.
In central Baghdad earlier today, a car bomb exploded at a military intelligence office, killing at least 13 people, according to reports. Meanwhile, near Tikrit, a suicide bomber in a military Humvee killed nine at a gathering of Shia militias.
The attacks are thought to have been retaliation for a suspected Shia machine-gun