The death toll made Wednesday's three suicide bombings at a busy market and two checkpoints the bloodiest day in Baghdad so far this year. Amaq news agency, which supports Islamic State, said two militants had clashed with police at al-Zeidan station before detonating their explosives-filled vests. Updated Thu, May 12th 2016 at 13:48 GMT +3Two suicide bombings claimed by Islamic State in a town near Baghdad killed two policemen and wounded eight others on Thursday, police and medics said, a day after Islamic State bombs left at least 80 people dead in the Iraqi capital. Violence against security forces and Shi'ite Muslim civilians is frequent, even as U.S.-backed Iraqi forces have rolled Islamic State back from swathes of the country's west and north seized in 2014. Baghdad became the target of daily bombings a decade ago following the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 that toppled Saddam Hussein.

Source: Standard Digital May 12, 2016 05:27 UTC