’ISIS’ Claims Responsibility for Baghdad Mosque, Checkpoint Attacks
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"ISIS" terrorist group claimed responsibility for the bomb attacks that targeted a Shia mosque as well as a military checkpoint in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, which left more than a dozen civilians dead and many more injured.
The group's terrorists, in a statement posted online, announced that their fellow extremists carried out the attacks in the al-Shu'ala neighborhood of northern Baghdad on Thursday evening.
In one attack, a bomber detonated his explosive-laden belt among people leaving the al-Rasoul al-A'zam Mosque, killing 10 people and wounding 34 others.
In parallel, another bomber struck the checkpoint at the entrance to the same neighborhood, leaving five people, including three soldiers, dead. At least 14 people also sustained injuries in the act of violence.
Separately on the same day, a soldier was killed and five others injured when unidentified assailants, armed with machine guns, launched an attack in the town of Mada'in, some 20 kilometers southeast of Baghdad, in addition to several other attacks surrounding the capital.
Relatively, the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq said a total of 849 Iraqis were killed and 1,450 others injured in acts of terrorism, violence and armed conflict in January.
A great portion of the fatalities was recorded in Baghdad, where 299 civilians were killed.
The northern and western parts of Iraq have been plagued by violence ever since "ISIS" terrorists began their march through the Iraqi territory in June 2014.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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