Iraq's sectarian crisis reignites as Shi'a militias execute civilians and remobilize
June 1, 2013![](https://understandingwar.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumb-wide/public/Graphic%201_0.png?itok=t56m9E0_)
Al Qaeda in Iraq launched a concentrated wave of car-bomb and other attacks specifically against civilian Shi'a targets in and around Baghdad. Shi'a militias are mobilizing and have begun a round of sectarian killings.