A truck bomb that killed 52 people near a Sunni mosque in western Iraq shows al Qaeda is stepping up a battle with Sunni tribes for control of Anbar province, tribal leaders and the U.S. military said on Sunday. The escalating power struggle within the Sunni community in one of the country’s most dangerous regions comes as U.S. and Iraqi troops concentrate efforts in Baghdad to stem violence between Shi’ites and Sunnis that is pushing Iraq to civil war. Full Story
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