Holy month For the vast majority of the world's Muslims, violence is completely dissonant with the holy month, which in addition to fasting is a time for spiritual renewal, prayer and visits with friends and family. Last year, too, saw many large Ramazan attacks, hitting a Tunisian beach resort, a Shia mosque in Kuwait, a Kurdish town in northern Syria and African Union troops in Somalia. The Sunni extremists of the IS almost immediately claimed responsibility for the bombing, saying it had killed a gathering of Shias. In Iraq, it recently lost control of Ramadi and was pushed out of Falluja last month - a humiliating defeat. But Karrada is a mixed area where Iraqis of all identities gather to do ordinary things: mainly to shop and eat.

Source: The Telegraph July 03, 2016 21:33 UTC