A resident salvages a chair after the truck bombing in Wardek, a Kurdish village. The suicide bomber struck around midnight as people slept. (Mujahed Mohammed / AFP/Getty Images)
Iraqi police check the trunk of a car at a road block set up in central Baghdad. Twenty-four people were been killed in two bomb blasts Thursday. The latest casualties come after the number of violent deaths in Iraq hit a 13-month high in August, raising fresh concerns about stability after the government admitted that security is worsening. (Sabah Arar / AFP/Getty Images)
At a hospital in Irbil, a nurse takes the temperature of a child wounded in the truck bombing in Wardek. Villagers blamed the bombing on the feud between the Arab-led provincial government and Kurdish political parties. (Safin Hamed / AFP/Getty Images)
An Iraqi Kurdish man sits outside a destroyed home following the suicide truck bombing in the village of Wardek. Kurdish officials arrived from semi-autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan and visited the site of the blast, where rescue workers were still digging for survivors. (Mujahed Mohammed / AFP/Getty Images)
