{"id":2299,"date":"2018-10-26T14:18:34","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T14:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/?p=2299"},"modified":"2018-10-26T14:21:46","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T14:21:46","slug":"iraq-deadly-car-bomb-hits-market-near-mosul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/2018\/10\/26\/iraq-deadly-car-bomb-hits-market-near-mosul\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq: Deadly car bomb hits market near Mosul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"speakable\">At least six people have been killed and 30 others wounded in a car bomb blast south of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/events\/battle-mosul.html\">Mosul<\/a>, police and medical sources said.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">A vehicle packed with explosives was parked near a restaurant and a crowded market area in\u00a0the northern\u00a0Iraqi\u00a0town of Qayyara, police said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Iraq&#8217;s top military commander in Mosul Major-General Najim al-Jabouri accused ISIL of carrying out the Qayyara attack.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are positive the car bomb attack was carried out by Daesh terrorists and we will bring them to justice,&#8221; Jabouri said, using a derogatory name for ISIL.<\/p>\n<p>An interior ministry spokesman said the blast was a result of a &#8220;terrorist attack by a car bomb&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Iraq declared victory over Islamic State\u00a0of Iraq and the Levant\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/features\/2017\/06\/rise-fall-isil-explained-170607085701484.html\">ISIL<\/a>, also known as ISIS)\u00a0in December, dislodging the group from all territories it held after its self-proclaimed caliphate, which also composed part of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/syria.html\">Syria<\/a>, collapsed earlier in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The group&#8217;s fighters have since waged a campaign of kidnapping, killing and bomb attacks targeting civilians and security forces.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/10\/iraq-car-bomb-blast-kills-wounds-15-mosul-181023080243163.html\">SOURCE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least six people have been killed and 30 others wounded in a car bomb blast south of\u00a0Mosul, police and medical sources said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[165,20,81],"class_list":["post-2299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-car-bomb","tag-iraq","tag-mosul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2299"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2304,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299\/revisions\/2304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}