Deadly auto bomb targets market in Shiite area of Baghdad

The videos emerge at the same time as news that at least 21 people were killed by two suicide bombers in central Baghdad, reports the Daily Mirror.

Additionally, almost one thousand tribesmen from the troubled western Iraqi province of Anbar have formed a pro-government battalion called “Abbasi Brigade” to liberate their native areas from the clutches of Daesh militants.

The attack took place on Monday when a booby-trapped vehicle ripped through a crowded market in Baghdad’s Shiite district of al-Ameen, the source told Xinhua.

“Militiamen deliberately destroyed several hundred civilian buildings with no apparent military reason after the withdrawal of the extremist armed group Islamic State, also known as ISIS, from the area”, HRW said in a press release promoting the report. In Latifiya, south of Baghdad, a bomb killed two people. Another blast close to a military patrol in al-Mashada, on the capital’s northern outskirts, left a soldier lifeless and 4 wounded.

The Daesh jihadist group, which overran swathes of Iraq in June previous year , claimed responsibility for the Ameen vehicle bombing in a statement posted online.

The army command centre stated in a Facebook submit it had found rocket launchers on two giant vans in the Taji space northwest of the capital which it stated had been used to fireside a number of Katyusha rockets in the direction of Camp Victory army base close to Baghdad airport.

Baghdad has witnessed a wave of kidnappings and attacks on government officials and civilians.

The government has been struggling to rein in Shi’ite militias, seen as critical forces against Islamic State, or control criminal gangs carrying out contract killings, kidnappings and extortions.