Militants have stormed a Sunni district in the northwestern Iraqi town of Tal Afar, killing at least 50 people, in apparent reprisal for truck bombings in a Shia district yesterday.
Police, military and health officials said as many as 50 men were killed in the attack on the town.
It follows an upsurge in violence in Baghdad and outside the capital in recent days.
US and Iraqi security forces have deployed thousands more soldiers in Baghdad to try to stem the ongoing sectarian war.
In yesterday's truck bombings in Tal Afar, one suicide bomber lured victims to buy wheat loaded on his truck in a Shia neighbourhood.
A second truck bomb exploded in a used car lot. The attacks killed 55 people and wounded 185.
