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flag Gunmen attacked a Sunni election candidate’s office in Baghdad, wounding two guards, ahead of Iraq’s November 11 polls.

flag Armed gunmen attacked the office of Sunni parliamentary candidate Muthanna al-Azzawi south of Baghdad, wounding two bodyguards, days after a bomb killed another election candidate, Safaa al-Mashhadani, and injured three others. flag The violence occurs ahead of Iraq’s November 11 parliamentary elections, the sixth since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion. flag Both candidates were running in a political landscape shaped by sectarian power-sharing, with the prime ministership traditionally held by a Shiite, the presidency by a Kurd, and the parliamentary speaker by a Sunni. flag Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani ordered investigations into both attacks, condemning the violence targeting political figures.

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