He said 20 other people were injured.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation sais no credible threats after new ISIS video names targets in SF The ISIS suicide attack, which is considered to be one of the deadliest bombings since the beginning of the Iraq War in 2003, occurred in a mostly Shiite district in Baghdad, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan – a time in which ISIS has urged its followers to bring pain to “infidels everywhere”.
On Tuesday, at least 12 people were killed in a suicide vehicle bombing at an outdoor vegetable and fruit market in al-Rashidiya. Up to 23 other people were wounded, he added. The Sunni extremists, who consider Shiites heretics, swept across northern and western Iraq in the summer of 2014, capturing large chunks of territory and plunging the country into its worst crisis since US troops left at the end of 2011.
Italian officials on Wednesday pointed to delayed, EU-financed rail improvements and the “risky”, antiquated telephone alert system used in parts of Italy as possible underlying causes of a violent head-on train crash that killed about two dozen people.
Iraqi government forces deployed in most of Baghdad on Tuesday, closing off main roads and snarling traffic.
The bombing at a checkpoint leading to the Husseiniyah area, northeast of the capital, the latest in a series of deadly attacks in the capital, also wounded 21 people, the officials said.
The parade is also marking the July 14 anniversary of the 1958 overthrow of the Hashemite monarchy and declaration of the republic of Iraq. And last Thursday, an attack at a Shiite shrine north of Baghdad killed 37 people.
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Carter said the new American forces will arrive within the next few weeks, and will be primarily tasked with transforming an air base that was recaptured from ISIS earlier this month into a staging area for the battle to retake Mosul.
