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Iraq’s prime minister has created an entity within his government that U.S. and Iraqi military officials say is being used as a smokescreen to hide an extreme Shiite agenda that is worsening the country’s sectarian divide.

Fourteen U.S. soldiers and Marines were killed in Iraq during the past 72 hours, making April the sixth deadliest month of the Iraq war, according to the U.S. military.

U.S. troops and fighters from radical Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada al-Sadr’s Mehdi Army clashed outside one of al-Sadr’s main offices Sunday.