Islamic
State militants claimed responsibility on Wednesday for an overnight
suicide bombing in a Shi'ite district of
Baghdad which killed 33 people, one of the deadliest recent attacks in the Iraqi capital. The hardline Sunni Islamist group which has led an offensive through **rthern and western Iraq said the explosion in Kadhimiya, site of a major Sh'ite shrine, was
carried out by a fighter it named as Abu Abdul-Rahman al-Tunisi (the Tunisian). The
Islamic State has claimed responsibility for a wave of bombings in Baghdad, including several blasts on Saturday which killed 27 people. Sunni fighters led by the
Islamic State swept through most of Iraq's Sunni Muslim provinces towards
Baghdad last month, their advance halted less than 100 km from the capital.
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