Militants killed 65 members of Iraq’s Sunni minority in two attacks on Friday, one of them on a mosque, further inflaming sectarian tensions and imperiling an already fragile effort to form a unity government. The attacks, which Sunni officials blamed on Shiite militia members, came as the governments in Baghdad and Washington are trying to forge a broad alliance against the militant forces of the Islamic State, the Sunni-led insurgency that has seized huge swaths of the country since June. Within hours of the separate attacks in the province of Diyala north of Baghdad, Iraq’s Sunni political parties pulled out of coalition talks to register their anger over what they characterized as state-backed retribution against the country’s main religious minority. Leaders of three of the largest Sunni electoral blocs announced they would suspend negotiations to form a new cabinet until the perpetrators of the attacks, which also injured 17 […]