Iraqi police have imposed strict security measures in the country’s capital as sectarian tensions threaten to push Iraq back toward civil war. Armed police, including SWAT teams, were seen manning checkpoints in Baghdad over the weekend, searching vehicles and checking drivers’ documents.
Around 800 followers of the Shi’ite group of Kata’ib Sayyid Al-Shuhada responded to a call by the country’s most influential Shi’ite cleric to take up arms and defend the country against the insurgency.
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