Lara Jakes

People inspect the scene of a car bomb attack in Kirkuk, 290 kilometers (180 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, March 20, 2012. Officials say attacks across Iraq have killed and wounded scores of people in a spate of violence that was dreaded in the days before Baghdad hosts the Arab world's top leaders. (AP Photo/Emad Matti)

Attacks kill 46 across Iraq ahead of Arab summit

Last updated Tuesday, March 20, 2012 - 3:39pm

BAGHDAD -- Insurgents plotting to derail next week's Arab League meeting in Baghdad unleashed bloody attacks across Iraq on Tuesday, killing 46 people. The government vowed not to be scared off from hosting the summit -- the first in the country in a generation and a chance to prove it is moving toward normalcy after years of war.

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(HADI MIZBAN/The Associated Press) In this Nov. 15, 2011 photo, a woman passes under posters for Shiite religious leaders and Shiite people who killed during the sectarian violence at primarily Shiite neighborhood of Hurriyah, north Baghdad, Iraq. Hurriyah - the name means “freedom” in Arabic - is symptomatic of much of Iraq: far quieter than at the height of the war but with an uneasy peace achieved through intimidation and bloodshed. The number of Iraqi neighborhoods in which members of the two Muslim sects live side by side and intermarry has dwindled.

Iraq emerges from war a society divided by sect

Last updated Sunday, November 27, 2011 - 5:23pm

BAGHDAD — The sounds of cars honking, shoppers shuffling and children laughing and playing drums fill the air in Hurriyah, a Baghdad neighborhood where machine-gun fire and death squads once kept terrified residents huddled in their darkened homes.

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