Dozens of people have been killed in a series of car bombs across Iraq on Sunday and Monday, according to officials.
A car packed with explosives killed 7 soldiers at an army checkpoint near the town of al-Nukhaib, with military officials blaming Islamic State for the attack. An army officer told Reuters, “Deash terrorists used a suicide car bomb attack to distract our soldiers and then they clashed with soldiers, but we managed to repel the attack."
On Monday night an attack in the busy Mansour district of Baghdad killed 10 people and wounded 25. The attacks come as Islamic State militants launched an attack on Iraq's largest oil refinery in Baiji, armed with machine guns and mortars.
A car packed with explosives killed 7 soldiers at an army checkpoint near the town of al-Nukhaib, with military officials blaming Islamic State for the attack. An army officer told Reuters, “Deash terrorists used a suicide car bomb attack to distract our soldiers and then they clashed with soldiers, but we managed to repel the attack."
On Monday night an attack in the busy Mansour district of Baghdad killed 10 people and wounded 25. The attacks come as Islamic State militants launched an attack on Iraq's largest oil refinery in Baiji, armed with machine guns and mortars.