BAGHDAD ¦ At least 33 persons were killed on Sunday in assassination attempts demanded by the group Islamic State (EI) near a market in a district with Shiite majority of Baghdad, according to representatives for security and medical Iraqi.
The jihadiste group also attacked a post of the army on the West of Baghdad, taking its control provisionally and killing at least eight members of security forces.
Attacks near a market of the district of Sadr City, the bloodiest in the Iraqi capital, since the beginning of the year, also hurt 79 persons at least.
According to the same sources, at least one of the attacks was launched by a kamikaze.
In Iraq, assassination attempts commit suicide members of the group Islamic State (EI) are a tactics almost exclusively used by extremist Sunni Muslims, notably.
The Muslim Shiites, who form the majority Iraqi population, are considered as heretics by the jihadistes of EI and are often the target of assassination attempts.
On Thursday, nine persons died in Baghdad in a double assassination attempt commit suicide perpetrated against a place of worship Shiite and demanded by EI.
According to representatives for security, puts him together jihadiste moreover launched an attack on Sunday morning against a post of the army in Abou Ghraib on the West of the capital, by taking over for a short term before security forces take him back some hours later.
This attack made eight dead and at least 22 injured men, according to the same sources.
Attacks and assassination attempts are frequent in Baghdad, even if the violence in the capital considerably lowered since EI took over large sections of the Iraqi territory in June, 2014, concentrating its combatants in these zones.
The jihadiste group also attacked a post of the army on the West of Baghdad, taking its control provisionally and killing at least eight members of security forces.
Attacks near a market of the district of Sadr City, the bloodiest in the Iraqi capital, since the beginning of the year, also hurt 79 persons at least.
According to the same sources, at least one of the attacks was launched by a kamikaze.
In Iraq, assassination attempts commit suicide members of the group Islamic State (EI) are a tactics almost exclusively used by extremist Sunni Muslims, notably.
The Muslim Shiites, who form the majority Iraqi population, are considered as heretics by the jihadistes of EI and are often the target of assassination attempts.
On Thursday, nine persons died in Baghdad in a double assassination attempt commit suicide perpetrated against a place of worship Shiite and demanded by EI.
According to representatives for security, puts him together jihadiste moreover launched an attack on Sunday morning against a post of the army in Abou Ghraib on the West of the capital, by taking over for a short term before security forces take him back some hours later.
This attack made eight dead and at least 22 injured men, according to the same sources.
Attacks and assassination attempts are frequent in Baghdad, even if the violence in the capital considerably lowered since EI took over large sections of the Iraqi territory in June, 2014, concentrating its combatants in these zones.
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