BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi authorities say 38 people have been killed in a series of car bomb attacks in Shiite areas of Baghdad.
Police officials say 13 people were killed and more than two dozen wounded when a suicide bomber rammed a car packed with explosives into a security checkpoint in a northern district of the capital.
A second car bombing targeted a commercial street in the Shula district in northwestern Baghdad, killed seven people and wounding 18.
In the same district, a suicide car bomb attack on a security checkpoint killed 18 people and wounded dozens.
Meanwhile, the U.S. military says it launched an airstrike north of the town of Tal Afar, hitting a small Islamic State fighting unit and destroying an armed vehicle. It says two other airstrikes targeted small militant units in Anbar province.
The military also says it conducted multiple airdrops Friday near the northern town of Beiji (BAY’-zhee) to resupply Iraqi security forces operating there.
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