{Suicide bombers kill more than 50 people in separate attacks in Baghdad and Basra, police say.}<\/p>\n
More than 50 people have been killed in a string of suicide car bomb attacks in Iraq’s capital, Baghdad, and the southern province of Basra, police have told Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n
At least 33 people were killed on Friday in two separate blasts at checkpoints on a highway near oilfields in Basra, according to police.<\/p>\n
The first explosion took place at the Rumeila checkpoint, and the second around one kilometre away at another checkpoint called al-Sadra.<\/p>\n
Iraq’s South Oil Company said there was no disruption to operations but oil police were put on maximum alert in response to the attack, officials told the Reuters news agency.<\/p>\n
Baghdad attacks<\/p>\n
Separately, two more attacks late on Friday killed at least 19 people, including security forces, and wounded 25 others in southern Baghdad.<\/p>\n
Police sources said a suicide car bomber detonated explosives at the entrance of a checkpoint, just as another attacker blew himself up near a police station located about a 100 metres away. <\/p>\n
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) armed group claimed responsibility for the Baghdad attacks.<\/p>\n
ISIL is under assault in both Iraq – in the country’s second city of Mosul – and in neighbouring Syria.<\/p>\n
The armed group took vast swaths of Iraqi territory north and west of Baghdad in 2014.<\/p>\n
Iraqi government forces backed by a US-led international coalition have since retaken many cities, including Tikrit and Fallujah.<\/p>\n
But as ISIL has lost ground in Iraq, it has also retained the ability to stage regular attacks in areas it does not control.<\/p>\n
Source:Al Jazeera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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