Shiite militants gunned down 14 tanker drivers in a makeshift leadership from late Wednesday in the Iraqi capital on the main road north of roadblocks to check their identity documents, police said.
Suleiman PEK, 160 kilometers (100 miles) north of Baghdad after the killings took place near the town and the police and the armed internal conflict between the army.
In the Shiite-led government, and their rebellion against the Sunni Islamist militants has been restored momentum in recent months, make an inventory of the civil war in neighboring Syria, which has inflamed sectarian conflict in Iraq and the wider region.
"All the victims were Shiite tanker driver, who is from Baghdad, Kirkuk, the town's mayor," Taleb Mohammed told Reuters reporters by phone. "Militants blocked their way close to Suleiman PEK, check their ID and execute their shooting their head and chest."
Earlier, in the 150 km (95 miles) north of the capital of Tikrit, the western gunmen ambushed a van, killing four soldiers from Baghdad to Mosul on roads.
Nine policemen were also killed when militants riding in pickup opened fire at a checkpoint Shura, 50 kilometers (35 miles) south of Mosul, Iraq's predominantly Sunni Nineveh province's third largest city and capital.
Emphasized steadily deteriorating security situation in Iraq, about 500 prisoners, including the "base" organization senior operatives, near the capital on Sunday a massive jailbreak escaped after militants attacked two prisons.
Islamic State of Iraq and the eastern Mediterranean, it is through the "base" organization of Syria and Iraq formed by the merger between the branches, claimed responsibility for the attack and said that it had released his accomplices, after months of preparation.
A security official told Reuters on Tuesday that some of the escaped prisoners to Syria to join the ranks of the mainly Sunni insurgents fighting to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad, from the Shi'ite Alawi sect.
Shiite fighters from Iraq also joined the conflict Assad's side, as well as with the Lebanese Hezbollah militia.
From the country's Sunni, Shiite domination growing dissatisfaction overthrow dictator Saddam Hussein in 2003, the US-led invasion of Iraq insurgency have been recruited.
Militant attacks in Iraq, has so far more than 720 people were killed in July, according to the violence monitoring group Iraq Body Count.
In the turmoil, ethnically mixed city of Kirkuk three roadside bomb wounded several people, a car bomb exploded near a market event (Wednesday) in the town of Tuz Khurmato wounded three.
 



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