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| Islamic State claims responsibility killing, injuring tens of people in Thursday’s blasts, north of Salahuddin | |||
| 2018-04-14 | |||
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... myrmidon group has grabbed credit for the blasts that took place, north of Tikrit, which left many people killed and injured. The media-arm of IS, Amaq news agency, said 17 personnel of al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces) were killed, while 30 others were maimed in an ambush at Asdeira village in Shirqat town. On Thursday, Ali Dawdah, mayor of Shirqat, said in a statement, "ten people were killed, while 14 others were maimed as explosives went off while digging tombs, on Wednesday night. The bombs were planted in a grave in Asdeira village in western Shirqat, north of Salahuddin."
[AnNahar] At least 25 people were killed and 18 injured in Thursday's kaboom on funerals for Iraqi fighters killed by jihadists, according to a new toll from police and medics. "Two bombs went kaboom!as the funeral procession was entering the cemetery" in Asdira, village mayor Salaheddin Shaalan told AFP. The Sunni village is south of Sharqat, one of the last bastions of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group in the country's north to be retaken by Iraqi forces. "In total, 25 people were killed and 18 injured, four of whom are still at death's door," a police officer told AFP on Friday, on condition of anonymity, revising an earlier corpse count. Medical sources confirmed the new figures. It was the deadliest attack in Iraq since a January 16 double suicide kaboom in Baghdad claimed 31 lives. Thursday's attack took place during a funeral for five members of the Hashed al-Shaabi paramilitary units killed Wednesday night in the same village, 250 kilometres (150 miles) north of Baghdad. The mostly Shiite paramilitary units, which also include Sunni tribal forces, played a key role alongside the army in expelling jihadists from Iraqi towns last year. The Iraqi government declared victory over IS in December after pushing IS jihadists out of their final holdouts along the border with Syria. But the group retains the capacity to strike despite losing control of vast swathes of Iraqi territory it seized in 2014. It still clings to pockets of desert in war-torn Syria and appears to be able to cross the mostly non-existent border between the two neighbours. Jihadists sometimes manage to snatch control of roads at night, especially in the Salaheddin province where Thursday's attack took place, and Anbar province along the border with Syria, security experts say. Iraq is gearing up for legislative elections set for May 12. Since the 2003 US-led invasion and the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime, polls in Iraq have consistently been marred by violence. But in the runup to next month's elections, the country has enjoyed a respite from violence.
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