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Iraq: Double Suicide Bombing Kills At Least 70 in Baghdad

HeadlineFeb 29, 2016

In news from Iraq, a double suicide bombing claimed by ISIL has killed at least 70 people in a Shiite section of the capital Baghdad, marking the deadliest attack inside the city this year. The attackers blew themselves up inside a crowded cellphone market in the neighborhood of Sadr City. Outside the capital Baghdad, in the suburb of Abu Ghraib, ISIL militants attacked Iraqi security forces, killing at least 17 of them and seizing a grain silo and cemetery, before they were mostly pushed back. Abu Ghraib is known as the site of a prison of the same name where U.S. troops abused Iraqi prisoners following the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003.

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