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May 22, 2017

Iraq: 50 People Killed in Suicide Bomb Attacks; Thousands Flee Mosul
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In Iraq, more than 50 people were killed in a string of suicide bomb
attacks in the capital Baghdad and at checkpoints near the oilfields in
the southern province of Basra on Friday. ISIS claimed responsibility
for the Baghdad attacks, which killed at least 19 people. The attacks
come as thousands of families continue to flee the fighting in Mosul,
where the U.S. and U.S.-backed Iraqi militaries are battling to retake
the city from ISIS. The United Nations says at least 435,000 people have
been displaced from western Mosul so far. A new report by Human Rights
Watch has accused troops allied with the U.S.-backed Iraqi military of
detaining, interrogating and torturing up to 100 residents as they fled
the fighting in Mosul last month.


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