Yesterday’s attacks killed 29 people across Iraq. String of ISIS attacks in Iraq kill 29Baghdad: ISIS launched a coordinated assault on a natural gas plant north of Baghdad that killed at least 14 people, while a string of other bomb attacks in or close to the capital killed 15 others. An ISIS statement posted online claimed the suicide attack, the second but rare intervention by the jihadist group in an area known as a stronghold of rival al-Qaeda. Flames and smoke rise from tanks after a suicide bomb attack on the Taji gas plant in IraqThe attack started on the gas plant started at dawn with a suicide car bomber hitting the main gate of the plant in the town of Taji. The suicide bomber killed at least 31 police recruits on the south-western outskirts of the city, which is the capital of Hadramawt province, medics said.

Source: Mid-Day May 15, 2016 23:33 UTC