Shop owners inspect their destroyed shop after a car bomb in Kut, Iraq. Bomb blasts ripped through more than a dozen Iraqi cities, killing scores of people, most of them in the southern city of Kut, in a wave of violence that shattered what had been a relatively peaceful holy month of Ramadan.

First published in the August 15, 2011, 10:59 p.m. edition

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