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| Suicide Attacks and Bombings Leave More Than 60 Dead in Iraq | |
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| BAGHDAD — Three suicide bombers attacked a government center in Diyala Province, northeast of Baghdad, on Sunday, killing 60 people and wounding more than 120, officials said. | |
| Many of the victims were people who had sought refuge in the district, Qara Taba, after violence had forced them to flee their homes elsewhere in the country, officials said. They had gathered at the government center to collect subsidies for displaced people. | Many of the victims were people who had sought refuge in the district, Qara Taba, after violence had forced them to flee their homes elsewhere in the country, officials said. They had gathered at the government center to collect subsidies for displaced people. |
| Earlier in the day, the police chief of the embattled province of Anbar in western Iraq was killed when two bombs planted along a rural road were detonated as his convoy drove by, officials said. Anbar officials said the death of the chief, Maj. Gen. Ahmed Saddag, was a setback to the efforts of the Iraqi security forces to wrest full control of the province from the jihadist insurgency called the Islamic State. | Earlier in the day, the police chief of the embattled province of Anbar in western Iraq was killed when two bombs planted along a rural road were detonated as his convoy drove by, officials said. Anbar officials said the death of the chief, Maj. Gen. Ahmed Saddag, was a setback to the efforts of the Iraqi security forces to wrest full control of the province from the jihadist insurgency called the Islamic State. |
| The Iraqi security forces have been struggling to push back the Islamic State fighters from territory they have captured this year. The insurgent group, which is also known as ISIS or ISIL, first made inroads in Iraq at the beginning of the year when its fighters swept from Syria into Anbar Province and quickly seized control of cities and territory throughout the Euphrates River valley, from the Syrian border to the rural western suburbs of the Baghdad metropolitan area. | The Iraqi security forces have been struggling to push back the Islamic State fighters from territory they have captured this year. The insurgent group, which is also known as ISIS or ISIL, first made inroads in Iraq at the beginning of the year when its fighters swept from Syria into Anbar Province and quickly seized control of cities and territory throughout the Euphrates River valley, from the Syrian border to the rural western suburbs of the Baghdad metropolitan area. |
| In June, another wave of fighters poured across the Syrian border into northern Iraq, quickly overwhelming Iraqi security forces in the city of Mosul. They have since expanded their control across areas of northern and central Iraq. | In June, another wave of fighters poured across the Syrian border into northern Iraq, quickly overwhelming Iraqi security forces in the city of Mosul. They have since expanded their control across areas of northern and central Iraq. |
| Sunday’s three-pronged attack in Qara Taba, northeast of Baquba near the Iranian border, targeted the mayor’s office, a building used by the internal security service of the Kurdistan regional government and an office of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, one of the main Kurdish political parties, according to Rudaw, a Kurdish news agency. | Sunday’s three-pronged attack in Qara Taba, northeast of Baquba near the Iranian border, targeted the mayor’s office, a building used by the internal security service of the Kurdistan regional government and an office of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, one of the main Kurdish political parties, according to Rudaw, a Kurdish news agency. |
| The first of the three bombers set off his explosives at the compound’s gates. | The first of the three bombers set off his explosives at the compound’s gates. |
| He was quickly followed by two other attackers driving cars loaded with explosives, which were detonated at the compound’s entrance, officials said. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack, according to The Associated Press. Qara Taba is close to Jalawla, where Islamic State fighters have been battling Iraqi security forces and Kurdish fighters, known as the pesh merga. Among the dead were 15 pesh merga veterans, Rudaw reported, adding that the attacks were also close to the pesh merga’s veterans affairs bureau. | |
| The attack that killed General Saddag in Anbar occurred in the town of Albu Risha, west of Ramadi, the provincial capital. Three of General Saddag’s bodyguards were also killed in the attack, said a staff member of a provincial council member, who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the news media. | The attack that killed General Saddag in Anbar occurred in the town of Albu Risha, west of Ramadi, the provincial capital. Three of General Saddag’s bodyguards were also killed in the attack, said a staff member of a provincial council member, who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the news media. |
| “His death is a great tragedy,” said Sheikh Ahmed Abu Risha, a leader of the Albu Risha tribe in Anbar Province. “He was a lion.” | “His death is a great tragedy,” said Sheikh Ahmed Abu Risha, a leader of the Albu Risha tribe in Anbar Province. “He was a lion.” |