With no clear winner from last month's elections in Iraq, the country has been left in political limbo. <br /><br />And as politicians jockey to form a government, there are increasing fears that a lingering political vacuum could lead to a surge in violence.<br /><br />In the last 24 hours, there were three separate attacks in and around the capital - the deadliest of which was a gruesome reminder of past sectarian violence and executions. <br /><br />The two smaller attacks occurred inside Baghdad itself, with four mortars landing in the heavily fortified green zone. So far, there are no reports of casualties there. <br /><br />The second attack occurred in the Saydiyah neighbourhood where a bomb blast killed two people and injured another. <br /><br />But the deadliest attack happened in the predominantly Sunni district of al-Rasheed, just south of Baghdad. <br /><br />Al Jazeera's Zeina Khodr reports from Baghdad.
