A car bomb in the northern Iraqi town of Tal Afar has killed at least 16 people.
Security sources say 20 others were injured when the bomb exploded near a marketplace. Tal Afar is 450 kilometres north of Baghdad, near Mosul, in an area where US-backed Iraqi forces have in recent months launched a crackdown on Sunni Arab militants. A spokesman for the anti-American Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr says his Mehdi Army militia could be dissolved if the United States begins implementing a troop withdrawal timetable.
(Deutsche Welle)
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