Baghdad became the target of daily bombings a decade ago following the US-led invasion in 2003 that toppled Saddam Hussein.
Baghdad:
Two suicide bombings claimed by ISIS in a town near Baghdad killed two policemen and wounded eight others today, police and medics said, a day after ISIS bombs left at least 80 people dead in the Iraqi capital.
The number of deaths made Wednesday's three suicide bombings at a busy market and two checkpoints the bloodiest day in Baghdad so far this year.
Police sources said today's bombers had approached a police station in Abu Ghraib from two directions before detonating their explosives.
Baghdad Operations Command, one of the security apparatuses charged with protecting the capital, said in a statement that a third assailant was killed on approach of the police station.
Amaq news agency, which supports ISIS, said two militants had clashed with police at al-Zeidan station before detonating their explosives-filled vests.
Baghdad became the target of daily bombings a decade ago following the US-led invasion in 2003 that toppled Saddam Hussein. Violence against security forces and Shi'ite Muslim civilians is frequent, even as US-backed Iraqi forces have rolled ISIS back from swathes of the country's west and north seized in 2014.
A recent surge in bombings has added to criticism of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, who already faces a political crisis over his attempts to overhaul his cabinet as part of an anti-corruption bid.
Lawmakers have failed to convene a session since protesters loyal to a powerful Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, a vocal advocate of dismantling Iraq's quota-based governing system, breached the heavily-fortified Green Zone district two weeks ago and took over the parliament complex for several hours.
The number of deaths made Wednesday's three suicide bombings at a busy market and two checkpoints the bloodiest day in Baghdad so far this year.
Police sources said today's bombers had approached a police station in Abu Ghraib from two directions before detonating their explosives.
Baghdad Operations Command, one of the security apparatuses charged with protecting the capital, said in a statement that a third assailant was killed on approach of the police station.
Amaq news agency, which supports ISIS, said two militants had clashed with police at al-Zeidan station before detonating their explosives-filled vests.
Baghdad became the target of daily bombings a decade ago following the US-led invasion in 2003 that toppled Saddam Hussein. Violence against security forces and Shi'ite Muslim civilians is frequent, even as US-backed Iraqi forces have rolled ISIS back from swathes of the country's west and north seized in 2014.
A recent surge in bombings has added to criticism of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, who already faces a political crisis over his attempts to overhaul his cabinet as part of an anti-corruption bid.
Lawmakers have failed to convene a session since protesters loyal to a powerful Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, a vocal advocate of dismantling Iraq's quota-based governing system, breached the heavily-fortified Green Zone district two weeks ago and took over the parliament complex for several hours.
© Thomson Reuters 2016
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