The radical Sunni Islamic State group on Saturday claimed responsibility for the bombing of a passenger bus that killed at least 11 people in Iraq’s mostly Shiite province of Karbala the day before...
File photo: Men suspected of being Islamic State group fighters walk together towards a screening point for new arrivals run by US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, where suspected jihadists -- many of them wounded -- were being interrogated outside Baghouz in the eastern Syrian Deir Ezzor province on March 5, 2019. Photo: AFP)
The radical Sunni Islamic State group on Saturday claimed responsibility for the bombing of a passenger bus that killed at least 11 people in Iraq’s mostly Shiite province of Karbala the day before.Islamic State said through its mouthpiece, Amaq news agency, that 17 Shiites had been killed or injured in the attack.In Dec. 2017, Iraq declared that its territory had been liberated from Islamic State after a U.S.-backed military campaign lasting more than three years.
However, Islamic State operatives have since carried out attacks against security forces and civilians in different parts of Iraq.
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