Insurgents take over northern #Iraq town, bomb historic Baghdad market
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Firefighters extinguish fire from Baghdad’s historic Shorjah market, which dates to the Abbassid era over 700 years ago, after it was hit by two bomb blasts on February 13, 2014 killing at least two people and wounding at least 11. (Photo: AFP - Ahmad al-Rubaye)
Islamist insurgents took over parts of a town in northern Iraq on Thursday, local officials said, gaining further ground against the government in Baghdad, which has also lost control of another city. In Baghdad, two bomb blasts in a historic market killed at least two people and wounded at least 11, officials said. The mayor of Sulaiman Bek said the militants belonged to the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a group involved in the takeover of the city of Fallujah last month and is also (...)