ISIS Suicide Bombers Kill 32 In Southern Iraq

ISIS in Iraq has ventured into the Shiite dominated southern part of the country killing at least 32 civilians and wounding more than 75 others. The terrorist organisation claimed responsibility for two suicide car bombs in the Shiite dominated southern Iraqi city of Samawah on Sunday.  Indian Express reports: The first blast was near a local government building and the second one about 60 metres (65 yards) away at a bus station, police sources said. The death toll was expected to keep rising. Unverified online photographs showed a large plume of smoke rising above the buildings as well as burnt out cars and bodies on the ground at the site of one of the blasts, including several children. Police and firefighters carried victims on stretchers and in their arms. Islamic State said it had attacked a gathering of special forces in Samawah, 230 km (140 miles) south of the capital, with one car bomb and then blew up the second when security forces responded to the site. Islamic State holds positions mostly in Sunni areas of the country’s north and west, far from the mainly Shi’ite southern provinces where Samawah is located. Such attacks are relatively rare. The rise of [...]