26 killed in latest wave of Iraq car bombings

Twenty-six people have been killed and dozens of others injured in a wave of car bombs in Baghdad, the latest attacks in a months-long surge in violence.

Attacks have been on the increase in Iraq since a deadly security crackdown in April on a Sunni protest camp. More than 3,000 people have been killed in violence during the past few months, raising fears that Iraq could see a new round of widespread sectarian bloodshed similar to that which brought the country to the edge of civil war in 2006 and 2007.