One of the Christmas Day bombings occurred at an outdoor market (Twitter/@htTweets).

One of the attacks was a car bomb that exploded near a church in Dora after Christmas Mass. Over 26 people were reported dead and 38 others were reported wounded. 

The other attack was located close by at an outdoors market of Athorien, a Christian neighborhood. Two bombs went off, claiming 11 lives and 21 injured.

According to the leader of the Chaldean Catholic Church Louis Sako, the car bomb did not injure any of his worshippers. Sako does not believe the church was the bomb's target.

Though no group has yet to come forward regarding the Christmas Day attacks, terrorist groups like Al-Qaida are believed to be behind a number of attacks on Iraq's Christian community - numbering about 400,000 to 600,000 people. 

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Experts believe organizations like al-Qaida are striving to sharpen ethnic tension and force the Christian population out of Iraq.

In a statement, the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad condemned the Christmas Day attacks "in the strongest terms." It said Iraq's Christian population "has suffered deliberate and senseless targeting by terrorists for many years, as have many other innocent Iraqis."

The Embassy confirmed its effort to the Iraqi government. "The United States abhors all such attacks and is committed to its partnership with the government of Iraq to combat the scourge of terrorism."

The Christmas Day bombings raises the number of people killed in Iraq this month to 441 people. The United Nations estimated that over 8,000 people have been killed this year.

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