According to reports, Iraqi official said militants bombed adjacent houses belonging to two brothers south of Baghdad on September 4, killing 18 members of their families. The bombs targeted the houses in the town of Latifiyah, south of Baghdad, shortly after midnight. Among the dead were at least five women and six children. Latifiyah lies within a confessionally-mixed region south of Baghdad known as the “Triangle of Death”, so named for the brutal violence that plagued the area during the peak of Iraq’s sectarian war in 2006 and 2007. 1

• 1. “Bomb attack on families near Baghdad kills 18,” Khaleej Times, September 4, 2013, at http://www.khaleejtimes.com/kt-article-display-1.asp?xfile=data/middleea...