12 people dead and over 20 others wounded in a Iraq suicide bombing.
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At least 15 people killed, another 29 wounded in attack on security checkpoint..
Sunday’s attack came just weeks after the deadliest terror attack in war-weary Baghdad in years, when a suicide truck bomb plowed into a busy shopping district killing nearly 300 people.
The claims can not be verified, but are posted on a militant website commonly used by the extremists.
His trip follows a July 3 bombing in Baghdad’s Karradah shopping district that killed more than 300 people, making it the deadliest attack of its kind since the United States toppled Saddam Hussein’s government in 2003.
The ultra-hardline militants have lost much of the territory they seized in 2014 and Abadi has pledged to retake this year the northern city of Mosul, the group’s de facto capital in Iraq.
An Iraqi policeman inspects the aftermath scene of a mortar and bombing attack on the Sayyid Mohammed shrine in the Balad area, located 70 kilometres (around 45 miles) north of Baghdad, on July 8, 2016.
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