Iraq executes 5 a day after bombing

Elsewhere in Baghdad, a roadside bomb went off in the mostly Shiite Shaab neighbourhood, killing five people and wounding 16, police said.

The suicide truck bomb blast also injured around 200 people.

The attacks come after Iraqi forces retook the city of Fallujah from IS.

(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File).

Also, the Iranian Foreign Ministry on Sunday censured the deadly terrorist attacks in Baghdad, calling the attacks acts of desperation by Daesh and its supporters who have sustained repeated defeats.

Reports say the dead include dozens of children. Saudi Arabia is part of the USA -led coalition to fight ISIS in the Middle East.

A suicide bomber carried out an attack early Monday near a US diplomatic site in the western Saudi city of Jiddah, according to the Interior Ministry.

The attack on the shopping area of Karrada is the deadliest since US-backed Iraqi forces last month scored a major victory when it dislodged Islamic State from their stronghold of Falluja, an hour’s drive west of the capital.

This timeline chronicles America’s involvement in Iraq, starting with President George H.W. Bush. “Tehran is ready for any level of cooperation and support to restore and stabilize security in the neighboring country of Iraq”, said Ali Larijani.

Firefighters and medical teams were still uncovering bodies from the city’s Karada neighborhood Monday morning. Well over 100 people were wounded by the blast, which also ignited fires that gutted nearby buildings.

Italian authorities were investigating the disappearance of a Wisconsin student who went missing in Rome a day after he arrived for an exchange program, but say it’s too early to know whether a male body found.

Three cities in separate countries hit by suspected Islamic State terrorists in the past week dealt a tumultuous blow to safety in those regions, heightening fears of the militants’ capabilities and where they could strike next.

Iraqis expressed their anger over the situation when Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and other officials attempted to survey the bomb damage.

In a statement issued later Sunday, Abadi ordered that a scandal-ridden bomb-detection device be pulled from service.

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In 2010, British authorities arrested the director of the British company ATSC Ltd. on fraud charges, prompting Iraqis to open their own investigation into corruption allegations.

On Monday evening, Associated Press reporters saw a number of the devices still being used at checkpoints around the capital as another round of blasts erupted.

Many Iraqis blame their political leadership for the way large amounts of explosives have made it past multiple checkpoints into crowded neighborhoods with disastrous results.

Small-scale bombings occur on a near-daily basis in Baghdad, and in May a string of large-scale bombings, many of them claimed by IS, killed more than 200 people in a single week.

Later Monday, about 10 rockets struck a refugee camp for Iranian exiles next to Baghdad’s global airport, according to a Baghdad police official.

The White House has condemned the attack, so has the Arab League, but that won’t come as any consolation to the people who have lost their loved ones.