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| BAGHDAD — Militants in Iraq attacked a military barracks in a remote area in the north and killed 20 soldiers overnight, including some who had been bound and shot at close range, the authorities said on Sunday. | BAGHDAD — Militants in Iraq attacked a military barracks in a remote area in the north and killed 20 soldiers overnight, including some who had been bound and shot at close range, the authorities said on Sunday. |
| The killings outside the northern city of Mosul mirrored two assaults earlier this year in the area. It also represents the latest blow to the government’s efforts to achieve stability in restive Sunni-dominated areas. Other attacks on Sunday, meanwhile, killed 14 people. | The killings outside the northern city of Mosul mirrored two assaults earlier this year in the area. It also represents the latest blow to the government’s efforts to achieve stability in restive Sunni-dominated areas. Other attacks on Sunday, meanwhile, killed 14 people. |
| Late Saturday night, two police officers said, gunmen stormed the barracks, shooting some soldiers at short range while others died fighting the insurgents. A medical official, who confirmed the death toll, said the hands of 11 soldiers had been tied behind their backs and they had been shot in the head. | Late Saturday night, two police officers said, gunmen stormed the barracks, shooting some soldiers at short range while others died fighting the insurgents. A medical official, who confirmed the death toll, said the hands of 11 soldiers had been tied behind their backs and they had been shot in the head. |
| The forces were in charge of protecting a pipeline that sends crude oil to international markets and guarding a highway nearby. Attacks on the pipeline are common in that area near Mosul, about 225 miles northwest of Baghdad. | The forces were in charge of protecting a pipeline that sends crude oil to international markets and guarding a highway nearby. Attacks on the pipeline are common in that area near Mosul, about 225 miles northwest of Baghdad. |
| No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack. But it mirrored a February attack in the area claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, a splinter group of Al Qaeda. Fifteen soldiers, some of them beheaded, were killed in the barracks. In April, militants killed at least 10 soldiers at a base outside Mosul. | |
| Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, was Al Qaeda’s last major urban stronghold in the country before American troops wrested it back in 2008. Sunni insurgent groups remain strong in the region, though, challenging Iraq’s Shiite-led government. | Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, was Al Qaeda’s last major urban stronghold in the country before American troops wrested it back in 2008. Sunni insurgent groups remain strong in the region, though, challenging Iraq’s Shiite-led government. |
| In the other attacks on Sunday, gunmen in a speeding car in the town of Adeim, about 60 miles north of Baghdad, fatally shot seven members of the Sahwa militia, which joined forces with American troops at the height of the war to fight Al Qaeda, the authorities said. | In the other attacks on Sunday, gunmen in a speeding car in the town of Adeim, about 60 miles north of Baghdad, fatally shot seven members of the Sahwa militia, which joined forces with American troops at the height of the war to fight Al Qaeda, the authorities said. |
| And outside Mosul, gunmen attacked a joint checkpoint for Iraqi police and the Sahwa, killing three officers and one Sunni militia member, another police official said. Another Sahwa member was killed, along with his brother and son, when gunmen stormed his house in the town of Yusufiya, 12 miles south of Baghdad. | And outside Mosul, gunmen attacked a joint checkpoint for Iraqi police and the Sahwa, killing three officers and one Sunni militia member, another police official said. Another Sahwa member was killed, along with his brother and son, when gunmen stormed his house in the town of Yusufiya, 12 miles south of Baghdad. |