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Iraq
IED blast kills civilian, wounds 4 in western Baghdad
2017-02-21
[Iraq News] One civilian was killed and four others were maimed Monday when an bomb went off west of Baghdad, according to Iraqi security sources.

Alsumaria News quoted the sources as saying that the device went kaboom! near a popular market in al-Nasr wal Salam area in Abu Gharib, west of the capital.

Violence surged in Iraq with the emergence of Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
Lions of Islam who took over large areas of the country in 2014. Baghdad has been witnessing almost daily bombings targeting civilians and security personnel.

Nobody has grabbed credit yet for the bombings, but IS Lions of Islam have said they had been responsible for several bloody kabooms and attacks that hit the capital in the past months, bringing the governorate municipal and security officials under critics’ fire.
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