The Islamic State (IS) group claimed responsibility on the night of Thursday to Friday for the double suicide bombing that left 32 dead and 110 injured earlier in the day in a busy market in Baghdad.
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The modus operandi - a suicide bomber, followed by a second when a crowd forms to help the wounded - has been used in the past by ISIS, which occupied nearly a third of Iraq in 2014 before Baghdad declares to have won his war against the jihadists at the end of 2017. Since then, jihadist cells have been hiding in the many mountainous and desert areas of the country.
