Officials announced Monday that a suicide bombing in Iraq has left 12 Shiite fighters and soldiers dead.
A suicide bomber set off the car bomb in the town of Abasiyat, roughly 80 miles north of Baghdad, The Associated Press reports. The attack wounded 18 people.
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