A new series of car bombings in and around Baghdad on Monday killed at least 23 people, officials said, as Iraq’s Shia-led government grapples with a stubborn Sunni extremist-led insurgency in the western Anbar province. Eight people were killed in two separate car bombs on Monday — one of which was detonated by a suicide attacker — in the town of Mahmudiyah, just south of in the Iraqi capital . Five others were killed by vehicles rigged with explosives in the Baghdad neighborhoods of Baladiyat and Hurriyah. A further three explosions — one in Sadr City and two in Abu Disheer — on Monday evening killed 10 people and injured 20. In western Baghdad, also on Monday, police found the bodies of three men and one woman who were all killed by bullets to the head, officials said. And in another incident, two soldiers were killed in clashes with […]