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Iraq
Suicide bomber kills at least nine in Baghdad
2016-09-28
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A jacket wallah detonated his explosive vest in a predominately Shiite Moslem district of Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least nine people and wounding 30, police and medical sources said.

The blast targeted a commercial street in the eastern Baghdad al-Jadida area of the Iraqi capital, they said, adding that the corpse count could climb further.

ISIS has intensified kabooms in government-held areas of Iraq this year as it loses territory to US-backed Iraqi government forces and Iranian-backed Shiite militias.

The ultra-hardline group claimed a truck bombing in July that killed at least 324 people in the Karrada shopping area of Baghdad - the deadliest single attack in Iraq since the US-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003.

The group continues to control vast areas in northern and western Iraq, including the city of djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, captured in 2014.
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