Islamic State Claims Responsibility for Pair of Iraq Attacks

WSJ:

BAGHDAD—Islamic State claimed responsibility for two attacks in Iraq that killed at least 29 people at a Baghdad shopping mall and at a cafe northeast of the capital on Monday night.

The assault on the Baghdad mall was carried out by two attackers and killed nine people and wounded 13, Iraqi officials said.

The pair detonated a bomb in a parked car outside the Al-Jawhara mall in Baghdad, then lobbed hand grenades at a crowd of pedestrians and sprayed them with bullets, the officials said.

One attacker detonated a suicide vest while standing in front of the shopping mall. The other was shot dead by police.

The siege on the mall was a rare coordinated attack in the Iraqi capital, which routinely sees car bombs and individual murders. It lasted less than an hour, police said.