{"id":13138,"date":"2018-08-29T10:35:31","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T10:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=13138"},"modified":"2018-08-29T10:35:31","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T10:35:31","slug":"iraq-eight-killed-in-anbar-province-suicide-bombing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=13138","title":{"rendered":"Iraq: Eight killed in Anbar province suicide bombing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"99.1569343066\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">At least eight people have been killed and 12 wounded in a suicide car bombing at a checkpoint near the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/iraq.html\">Iraq<\/a>&#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/syria.html\">Syria<\/a>\u00a0border.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The Reuters news agency reported on Wednesday that a car rigged with explosives drove into the checkpoint\u00a0<span>in\u00a0<\/span><span>al-Qaim district as it\u00a0<\/span>was jointly manned by the Iraqi army and Shia militias.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\"><span><span>The town&#8217;s mayor,\u00a0<\/span>Ahmed al-Mehlawy,\u00a0<\/span>said five militiamen and three civilians were killed in the attack.<\/p>\n<p>However a security source told the dpa news agency that the death toll was higher, saying 21 people were killed, 15 of those militiamen.<\/p>\n<p><span>No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack but fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) operate in the area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>Al-Qaim, a border town of around 150,000 people, <\/span><span>has previously served as\u00a0<span>a crossing point for fighters, weapons and money used to fuel the armed group.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>ISIL once controlled significant portions of Iraq and Syria, ruling over roughly 110,000sq km in those two countries.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>But since\u00a0December, after Prime Minister Hyder al-Abadi\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2017\/12\/iraqi-general-war-isil-171209120757374.html\">declared victory<\/a>\u00a0over the armed group,\u00a0<span>the group&#8217;s territory is said to about 10,000sq km, mostly in eastern Syria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>According to a recent\u00a0United Nations report,\u00a0there are between 20,000 and 30,000 ISIL members in Iraq and Syria, despite the groups&#8217; defeat and a halt in the flow of foreigners joining its ranks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least eight people have been killed and 12 wounded in a suicide car bombing at a checkpoint near the\u00a0Iraq-Syria\u00a0border. The Reuters news agency reported on Wednesday that a car rigged with explosives drove into the checkpoint\u00a0in\u00a0al-Qaim district as it\u00a0was jointly manned by the Iraqi army and Shia militias. The town&#8217;s mayor,\u00a0Ahmed al-Mehlawy,\u00a0said five militiamen&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":13139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}