Car bomb kills five in Iraq

BAGHDAD
Acar bomb blast claimed by the Islamic State
jihadist groups killed at least five people in
the Iraqi town of Khalis on Tuesday official said.

The blast which the top provincial official in
Khalis said occurred outside a reputed local
doctor's housed also left at least 11 wounded
The IS group said in a claim posted on jihadist
forums that the explosion targeted members
of Hasbed al Shaabi an umbrella organisation
for mostly Shiite militias which has been playing
a leading role in the anti-IS fightback .

Khalis lies 60 kilometres north of Bahdad in
Diyala a province which the government
declared free of IS militants January

The jihadists no longer have fired positions there
but have reverted to their old tactics of planing
car bombs carrying out suicide operations or
hit and run attacks.
AFP