The Baghdad attacker, who was on foot, blew up his explosives-laden vest at a police checkpoint in the northern eighborhood of Shula, a police officer said.
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In the town of Youssifiyah, 20 kilometers south of Baghdad, a bomb explosion in a commercial area killed at least three shoppers and wounded nine others, another police officer said.
In an online statement, Islamic State claimed responsibility for the Kadhimiyah attack, saying it targeted a gathering of security forces and Shiite militia members.
Meanwhile, the decision by the Babil Provincial Council reflects attempts by local authorities to try – independently of the central government in Baghdad – to rein in militant attacks in municipalities and provinces across the country battered by years of war.
It’s the first such decision in Iraq since the 2003 US -led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.
IS overran large areas north and west of Baghdad in 2014, but Iraqi forces have since regained significant ground and are conducting operations to set the stage for the battle to recapture Mosul, the last IS-held city in the country.
Fadaam declined to release the number of militants convicted for carrying out attacks in his province.
Faddam says a court order also must precede the demolishing of a house.
The worldwide warplanes bombarded a convoy of five IS vehicles at a village in north of the town of Baghdadi, some 190 km northwest of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, destroying the vehicles and killing 16 IS militants, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. Demands for execution of hundreds of convicted militants on death row have also grown.
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Earlier this month, IS carried out a suicide bombing in a crowded shopping area in Baghdad s Karrada district that killed 292 people – one of the deadliest such attacks to ever hit Iraq.
