US 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”.
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People grieve at the scene of a massive auto 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.
“What matters is that he is Iraqi and he needs it”, Abbas said.
“The government treats us like animals and they don’t care about what happens to us”, he said.
The FBI lifted a major legal threat to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign Tuesday, recommending no criminal charges for her handling of highly classified material in a private email account. “Others were crying. Others were sifting through the rubble looking for loved ones”. Lt. Brian Rice has chosen to be tried instead by.
A camp for Iranian dissidents near Baghdad’s global airport was shelled on Monday, a spokesman of the opposition People’s Mujahideen Organisation of Iran says.
Bombings in the capital have decreased since IS overran large areas north and west of Baghdad in June 2014, with the militants apparently more concerned with operations elsewhere.
Bruno Geddo, of the United Nations refugee agency, said it was “particularly cruel to target a camp holding vulnerable displaced families, who had already fled their homes to escape conflict and violence”. “All it takes is for one house to have at least one man and you have a planning base and launch site for attacks of this type”.
Monday’s announcement came a day after a massive bombing claimed by the Islamic State group killed more than 150 people in the heart of the Iraqi capital.
“I placed my resignation before the prime minister”, Ghabban told a news conference in Baghdad.
But there are also flaws in security measures in the city, especially the use of fake bomb detectors at checkpoints years after the man who sold them to Iraq was jailed for fraud in Britain. He said he submitted a reform plan when he took office in 2015, but it was shelved. The groups include the army, federal and local police and government-sanctioned Shiite militia groups.
The incident is one of the deadliest ever militant attacks in Iraq.
People light candles at the scene of a massive auto 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, Sunday, July 3, 2016.
The suicide vehicle bombing ripped through Baghdad’s Karrada district early on Sunday when it was teeming with shoppers ahead of the holiday marking the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, sparking infernos in nearby buildings.
An Islamic State suicide bomber struck Baghdad’s bustling commercial area of Karada in the early hours on Sunday, when many residents were spending the night out, before the start of their dawn fast.
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Police and health officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to release the information, warned that there are still people missing and that the death toll could rise further.
