Suicide bombings in Iraq

A video shows the shocking moment when a teenage ISIS suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowded stadium after a local football game ended, killing at least 65 people.

‘They were just handing the trophy to the winners, the suicide attacker blew himself up in the crowd,’ a police captain from the village, Al-Asriya, told AFP.

At least 47 people were killed and many other injured as a suicide bomber driving a truck full of explosives attacked a security checkpoint on a strategic motorway near the city of Hilla, south of Baghdad on Sunday.

According to the BBC, thirty nine of the dead were civilians, with the rest being police officers.

Jihadist gunmen and bombers killed at least 12 people in a busy market area of Baghdad, while a double blast at a cafe north of the Iraqi capital claimed another 20 lives.

An attack claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and involving suicide explosions, gunfights and hostage-taking wreaked chaos in the eastern neighborhood of Baghdad al-Jadida.

The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for Tuesday's suicide bombing of a bus carrying members of the Tunisian presidential guard.

The Islamist militants have released a statement via the social media accounts on Wednesday, newswires reported.

Three explosions, two of them suicide car bombs claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) jihadist group, killed at least 33 people in Iraq's restive Diyala province on August 10, police and medics said.

Iraqi officials said at least 42 people have been killed in two separate suicide bomb attacks, according to AP. The deadliest of the two happened at the marketplace of the capital of Diyala province, Baquba, located 60klm northwest of Baghdad. Police said a suicide car bomb tore through a marketplace, ending the lives of 35 people and wounding 72.

At least 22 people were killed in Iraq, yesterday.

At least seven soldiers were killed, after a car-bomb exploded at an army outpost in western Iraq. Six more were killed and 17 were wounded when another car-bomb exploded in central Baghdad.

A bomb-laden vehicle driven by a suicide bomber from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has exploded in mid-air, moments after being hit by a roadside bomb near Kirkuk, a newly-released video purportedly shows.

A bomb exploded near a police checkpoint on bridge in an affluent Cairo neighbourhood on April 5, killing an officer, Egyptian police officials said.
      
The bomb had been placed next to the checkpoint on a side of the May 15 bridge located in the neighbourhood of Zamalek, the officials said.
      

A suicide bomber detonated explosives Monday outside a Shiite mosque in central Baghdad, killing at least 11 people in the second such attack in the capital in 24 hours, officials said.