Twin Bombings Martyr 15 in Iraq’s Kadhimiya
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At least 15 people were martyred in two bombings in and around Baghdad on Monday, police and medical sources said, the latest in a string of deadly attacks to hit the Iraqi capital in the last two weeks.
A suicide bombing at a security checkpoint in the neighborhood of Kadhimiya martyred 13 civilians and wounded more than 30 others, the sources said.
The neighborhood is home to one of the holiest shrines is the regular target of such attacks.
Two people were later martyred when a bomb went off on a main street in a northern suburb, police and medical sources said.
No person or group immediately claimed responsibility for the bombings. The "ISIL", an al-Qaeda offshoot, regularly targets neighborhoods in the capital.
Large swathes of land in Iraq have become "ISIL" strongholds as the extremist group, which declared a "caliphate" in the territory it seized in Iraq and Syria, drove Iraq's army - the recipient of $25 billion in US training and funding since the 2003 invasion - to collapse.
At least 37 people were killed in a wave of bombings on Saturday.
According to a report by the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq [UNAMI] earlier in February, fighting and other violence in Iraq killed at least 1,375 people including 790 civilians in January.
However, the UN numbers do not include territories held by the "ISIL".
The group has executed thousands in Iraq and Syria, targeting, in particular, ethnic and religious minorities.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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