A series of attacks across Iraq killed at least 32 people on Tuesday ( September 17), police and medical sources said.<br/> <br />In the capital, a series of car bombs exploded in Shi'ite neighborhoods in southern and eastern districts,.<br/> <br />It was not immediately clear who carried out the attacks, but Sunni militants who view Shi'ites as non-believers have been stepping up their insurgency and striking with a ferocity not seen in years.<br/> <br />Two car bombs hit the Shi'ite neighbourhood of Zafaraniya in southeastern part of the capital.<br/> <br />A third car bomb exploded at the commercial area of Bataween in downtown Baghdad, a fourth car bomb exploded in Al-nasr square in Baghdad's Al-Sadoun street.<br/> <br />More than two years of civil war in neighboring Syria have aggravated deep-rooted sectarian divisions and shaken Iraq's fragile coalition of Shi'ite, Kurdish and Sunni factions.
