Morale is not good.”With the fall of Falluja, Isis has now lost three of the cities it seized in 2014. Iraqi authorities have raised the death toll from an attack on a Baghdad shopping district to 149 as the prime minister, Haider al-Abadi, ordered new security measures in the capital. The attack once again exposed the frailty of security efforts to protect Iraqi citizens. Baghdad has been struck upwards of 1,000 times, Iraqi officials claim, with the vast majority of those attacks targeting civilian areas frequented by the majority Shia sect, such as market places, shopping strips, religious gatherings and shrines. Police and health officials said on Monday the death toll stood at 149 but that it was likely to increase further as rescuers were still looking for missing people.

Source: The Guardian July 04, 2016 10:30 UTC