In Iraq, more than seventy people died Tuesday in one of the deadliest days in weeks. In Baquba, a bomb exploded inside a bus killing forty people and injuring seventy. Many of the dead were reportedly women and children. Another thirteen people died in Ramadi when a suicide bomber struck a kebab restaurant where local police officers were eating.
Meanwhile, a US air strike killed four Iraqis in Basra. And in northern Iraq, Turkish warplanes have carried out another raid targeting Kurdish areas.