BAGHDAD—A suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden car into a checkpoint outside a Shiite town north of Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 14 people, Iraqi officials said, while a string of bombings in the Iraqi capital killed nine more people. But the extremists have continued to carry out near-daily bombings in and around Baghdad, as well as complex attacks in other countries. Monday’s checkpoint bombing took place at one of the busy entrances to the town of Khalis, about 80 kilometres north of the Iraqi capital, a police officer said. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attacks, which bore the hallmarks of the extremist Daesh group, also called ISIS or ISIL. The town is a Shiite enclave surrounded by Sunni areas in the restive Diyala province.

Source: thestar July 25, 2016 12:33 UTC