Two roadside bombs have separately struck two convoys of trucks carrying logistical equipment belonging to the US-led coalition forces in the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad as well as the central province of Babil.
Dozens of activists and demonstrators have gathered outside the Turkish embassy in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, to protest Ankara's cross-border military operations in the Arab country’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region against purported positions of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militant group.
The Iraqi army frustrated a suicide attack on the capital Baghdad, arresting the terrorist cell behind it.
Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi pledged on Friday that Thursday’s security breach of the twin suicide bombings in Baghdad “would not be repeated,” stressing the need to urgently address the challenges facing the performance of the intelligence services.
Iran’s Embassy in Baghdad has vehemently condemned twin bombings against the Iraqi capital that killed at least 32 people proving the deadliest attack to target the city in three years.