2015-01-22 18:15
Baghdad - A suicide attack in the Taji area, north of the Iraqi
capital, killed at least seven people and wounded 17 on Thursday,
security and medical officials said.
It was not immediately clear
if the target was the area's sprawling military base or an entrance to
Taji itself, and the number of suicide bombers was unknown.
US
military trainers are based at Taji, helping to instruct some 1,600
Iraqi soldiers in a six-week programme aimed at readying them to face
the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group.
There
was no immediate claim for the attack, but suicide bombings are a
tactic almost exclusively employed by Sunni extremist groups in Iraq,
including IS.
IS spearheaded a June offensive that overran much of Iraq's Sunni Arab heartland, sweeping security forces aside.
Iraqi
troops, Kurdish forces, Shiite militias and Sunni tribesmen have since
retaken some areas but the jihadists still holds significant territory,
including three major cities.
A US-led coalition is carrying out
air strikes against IS as well as advising and training both Iraqi
federal and Kurdish forces.
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