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February 29, 2016

Iraq: Double Suicide Bombing Kills At Least 70 in Baghdad
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In news from Iraq, a double suicide bombing claimed by ISIL has killed
at least 70 people in a Shiite section of the capital Baghdad, marking
the deadliest attack inside the city this year. The attackers blew
themselves up inside a crowded cellphone market in the neighborhood of
Sadr City. Outside the capital Baghdad, in the suburb of Abu Ghraib,
ISIL militants attacked Iraqi security forces, killing at least 17 of
them and seizing a grain silo and cemetery, before they were mostly
pushed back. Abu Ghraib is known as the site of a prison of the same
name where U.S. troops abused Iraqi prisoners following the U.S.
invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Topics:Iraq Islamic State

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