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Given the region’s porous borders, USA officials emphasize that their figures are rough estimates, not precise head counts, based on allied reports about their citizens’ travel and other intelligence.

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.

One of the two attacks struck close to the entrance of a marketplace near Tayran Square. Two suicide bomb attacks in the central commercial district of Bab al-Sharji killed at least eight people and wounded 18 others. The second blast also wounded 12 people.

In the panel’s report, seen by Reuters and confirmed as accurate by three of its members, the committee also placed responsibility for the June 2014 defeat with former Mosul Governor Atheel al-Nujaifi, former acting defence minister Sadoun al-Dulaimi, former army chief...

Thursday’s blast at the Jameela market in the over-crowded Sadr City neighborhood also wounded 125 people.

A massive truck bomb ripped through a popular Baghdad food market in a predominantly Shiite neighborhood early Thursday morning, killing at least 67 people, police officials said. The attack also wounded 125 people.

Carter, speaking at the end of a meeting with Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi in Baghdad’s Green Zone, lauded the Iraqi leader’s efforts to foster inter-sectarian cooperation since becoming premier past year.

IS issued a statement on militant forums on Thursday claiming responsibility for the two bombs in predominantly neighbourhoods that killed at least 21 people.

Another bombing near a bus stop killed three people in Baghdad’s northwestern district of Shulla.