People light candles at the scene of a massive vehicle bomb attack in Karada, a busy shopping district where people were shopping for the upcoming Eid al-Fitr holiday, in the center of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, July 4, 2016.
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USA defense and intelligence officials have said that as ISIS looses territory in Iraq and Syria, they expect the group to “revert to some of their terrorist roots”.
Philadelphia’s main transit agency is looking to lease equipment from other states after sidelining 120 regional rail cars due to structural problems that don’t appear to have any quick fix.
The destruction of the area was all but complete.
From Iran to Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom, mourners have held candlelight vigils and draped their landmarks with Iraqi flags in a show of solidarity.
Nearly 10,000 people were killed in attacks there in 2014 – more than the cumulative total of fatalities from terrorism in the entire world from 1998 to 2000 – and the number has continued to rise.
The ministry said those critically injured had been sent overseas, without giving further details.
Iraqi forces announced last week they have seized the city of Falluja, 40 miles west of Baghdad, from ISIS.
A refrigerator truck packed with explosives plowed outside a shopping complex in a predominantly-Shia area and blew up. Such was the chaos it took days for the scale of the attack to become clear.
Saddam Hussein’s regime was harsh, and it could be murderous.
In recent months, Iraqi leaders have repeatedly denounced Saudi Ambassador Thamer al-Sabhan’s remarks about Hashd al-Shaabi as tantamount to meddling in the country’s internal affairs. “Every day that people have to think about this tragedy, it just makes them more upset”.
As for democracy, many I have spoken to believe the hopelessly sectarian political system is broken.
The high commissioner’s spokesman, Rupert Colville, says fighters from the Kata’ib Hezbollah militia immediately separated men and teenage boys from the women and children, who were transferred to government-run camps for displaced people.
A second bomb exploded Sunday at an outdoor market in the Shaab neighborhood of southeastern Baghdad, killing one person and wounding five others, police said.
“I placed my resignation before the prime minister”, Mohammed al-Ghabban said Tuesday.
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Despite the prime minister’s statement, journalists in Baghdad reported seeing the wands in use the morning after the order was issued.
