BAGHDAD: Attacks mostly targeting cafes in and around Baghdad killed 17 people, officials said on Friday, the latest violence to spark concern of a revival of all-out sectarian war.

The blasts on Thursday evening struck cafes in a mostly Sunni Arab neighborhood of Baghdad, the central city of Baquba, and a town south of the capital, and came as Iraq grapples with a longstanding political deadlock and months of protests among the Sunni Arab minority.

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