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FILE – In this Sept. 4, 2013 file photo, people seen through broken bricks of a damaged shop inspect the site of a car bomb attack in the Karrada neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq. Nearly 1,000 Iraqis were killed in September, one of the highest monthly death tolls in years, the U.N. says, giving a somber figure that reflects the militants’ determination to rekindle large-scale sectarian conflict. Iraq is going through its worst surge in violence since 2008, with near-daily militant attacks and relentless bombings blamed on hard-line Sunni insurgents. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)