Hadi Mizban/AP Photo People gather in front of a burned mall covered with posters in memory of the victims at the scene of a massive suicide truck bomb attack in Karada, Iraq, July 10, 2016.
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ISIS has been turning increasingly to suicide bombings, which U.S. and Iraqi officials have touted as proof that battlefield setbacks are weakening the jihadists.
An Iraqi TV cameraman was killed and a reporter of a local TV wounded on Wednesday in a rocket attack by Islamic State (IS) militants in south of the IS stronghold in Mosul in northern Iraq, an Iraqi media freedom watchdog said.
ABC 17 news spoke to the people at the memorial who say Isis is not just targeting the USA, but also Iraq and Muslims.
Six civilians and two policemen were killed when the bomber rammed his explosives-laden auto into the checkpoint in the al-Rashidiya district, police said.
On Monday, visiting US Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Washington will send 560 more troops to Iraq to help in the fight against ISIL.
Two separate bombings elsewhere in Baghdad killed four civilians and wounded 16, police said.
ISIS, which regularly carries out such bombings in the capital and other parts of Iraq where it seized swathes of territory in 2014, said in an online statement it had targeted the army. It was behind two large-scale attacks last week that killed around 300 people.
Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Thursday presided over a parade in central Baghdad as Iraqi security forces made significant progress in battles against Islamic State (IS) militants to free the last major IS stronghold in Mosul.
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Wednesday’s attacks came on the eve of a military parade in Baghdad to mark the anniversary of the 1958 overthrow of a Hashemite monarchy and the declaration of Iraq as a republic.
