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    Obama authorizes 1,500 more troops for Iraq
    By LOLITA C. BALDOR November 7, 2014

    WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama authorized on Friday a broad expansion of the U.S. military mission in Iraq that could boost the total number of American troops there to 3,100 and spread advisory teams and trainers across the country, including into Anbar province where fighting with Islamic State militants has been fierce.

    The president's decision to escalate the U.S. effort in Iraq comes just three days after midterm elections that were bruising for Democrats and amid persistent arguments that more U.S. troops are needed to bolster the struggling Iraqi forces. In particular, the Iraqi government, members of Congress and others have called for troops in Anbar in western Iraq, where extremists have been slaughtering men, women and children.

    Obama authorized the Pentagon to send up to 1,500 more troops to Iraq, adding to the 1,600 previously allowed. There are currently about 1,400 there.

    The plans are all contingent on Congress approving his nearly $5.6 billion request to fund the expanded mission. The troops will not be able to deploy until legislation passes and the president signs it.

    Congress hopes to complete the defense policy bill in the postelection, pre-holiday session and will consider the Iraq funding along with the administration's request for billions more for military operations overseas. Lawmakers are still pressing the White House for additional details on how the money would be spent.

    Rear Adm. John Kirby, the Pentagon press secretary, said the military will set up several sites across Iraq to train nine Iraqi Army brigades and three peshmerga brigades, which are made up of Iraqi Kurdish forces. The military will also establish two operations centers where small advisory teams can work with Iraqi forces at the headquarters and brigade levels.

    Kirby said one of those centers will be in Anbar province, where U.S. troops fought al-Qaida extremists in brutal fighting in 2004 to 2007, costing more than 1,000 American lives and 9,000 Iraqi lives, mainly in the cities of Fallujah and Ramadi.

    He added that the U.S. also is considering training of some of the Sunni tribes. In 2007, Sunni Arab tribes in Anbar joined forces with Americans - in what was called the Anbar Awakening - and dealt a blow against the insurgents that many credit with turning the tide in that conflict.

    The new Iraqi leaders have pledged to be more supportive of the Sunni tribes than the previous Shiite government was, although Kirby said it's unclear whether the Baghdad government will provide them with weapons.

    Kirby said the expansion was based on a request from the Iraqi officials, the U.S. military's assessment of Iraqi military progress and as part of a campaign plan "to defend key areas and go on the offensive against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant," another name for IS.

    The U.S. troops will not be in combat roles but will train Iraqi forces in protected locations around the country. Until now, U.S. troops have largely been confined to Baghdad and Irbil, including two operations centers in those cities. Of the 1,500 troops, Kirby said that about 630 would be used for the advisory teams, including support and security forces, and the rest would be for the training mission. Troops could begin deploying as soon as this month, if Congress approves the funding, but it will take a couple months to get the training sites ready, and the actual training will take six to seven months.

    The funding request followed a meeting among Obama and congressional leaders on Friday, which included a military briefing. Of the approximately $5 billion for the Pentagon, about $3.4 billion would support ongoing operations and strikes on the Islamic State, and $1.6 billion would support the training and equipping mission for the Iraqis. The remainder is State Department funding to support diplomatic efforts.

    Kirby said Iraq and other coalition nations will contribute money, and other nations will also send trainers. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel met with the Danish Minister of Defense Nicolai Wammen on Friday at the Pentagon, and Kirby said the minister committed to sending up to 120 trainers for Iraqi forces.

    The U.S. has been launching airstrikes on Islamic State group militants and facilities in Iraq and Syria for months, as part of an effort to give Iraqi forces the time and space to mount a more effective offensive. Early on, the Islamic State group had gained ground across Iraq.

    Lately, however, with the aid of the U.S. strikes, IS has suffered a number of losses in Iraq, where it is fighting government forces, peshmerga and Shiite militias aided by Iran and the Lebanese Hezbollah group.

    Last week, Iraqi forces recaptured the town of Jurf al-Sakher. IS also lost a string of towns near the Syrian border last month. Besieged Iraqi troops have also managed to maintain control of Iraq's largest oil refinery outside the town of Beiji north of Baghdad, despite numerous attempts by the Islamic State group to capture it.

    Rep. Howard P. "Buck" McKeon, R-Calif., the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, said Friday that he has "long been concerned that the president has underfunded our combat operations against terrorists."

    He said he will give the funding request fair consideration, but added, "I remain concerned that the president's strategy to defeat ISIL is insufficient. I would urge the president to reconsider his strategy and clearly explain how this additional funding supports a new direction. Such clarity is more likely to find swift congressional approval."

    ISIL is one of several acronyms for the Islamic State.

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    WATCH as Reporters Actually Laugh at This Ridiculous Obama State Department Claim
    May 30, 2014 By Matthew Burke


    State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki, who worked as a spokesperson for John Kerry’s failed 2004 presential bid, thinks that Obama is being too modest in regards to taking credit for supposed foreign policy “successes,” like Ukraine and Iran.

    Ukraine and Iran?

    It’s laughable and even the mainstream media chuckles with disbelief at the outrageous assertion (WATCH BELOW) and mocks Psaki:

    Q: Jen, you would argue the president doesn’t give himself enough credit? How much credit would you give him?

    PSAKI: Well, I think what I’m — I would give him more than he has given himself. That’s what I just said.

    Q: What, like, 200 percent credit?

    PSAKI: So would the secretary.

    Q: So — and for — and for –

    Q: Credit for what? I’m sorry, credit for what?

    Q: For what, yes, exactly? That’s the point.

    Q: No, I mean, I don’t — I don’t mean, like, he doesn’t deserve credit.

    Q: For the Iran negotiations?

    Q. I mean — I mean — I’m talking, what specifically are you talking he doesn’t get enough credit for — (inaudible)?

    PSAKI: For engagement initiatives like Iran, what we’ve done on Ukraine, efforts to dive in and engage around the world.

    (Crosstalk.)

    Q: I mean, Russia has still annexed Crimea. I mean, Iran — there’s ongoing negotiations, but is that the success here that you’re talking?

    PSAKI: We’re talking about engagement in the world and taking on tough issues that present themselves. And the United States continues to play a prominent role doing that.


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    Islamic State seizes capital of Iraq’s largest province
    The Washington Post - Hugh Naylor and Mustafa Salim - 8 hrs ago


    BAGHDAD — Islamic State fighters took control of key sites in heart of Ramadi, capital of Iraq’s largest province, Iraqi officials said Friday, in what appeared to mark a significant blow to a U.S.-backed military campaign to retake territory from the militants.

    The Islamic State offensive — which began with ambush-style attacks after sundown Thursday — also pointed to wider concerns about the ability of Iraqi ground forces to overcome the well-armed extremists on other fronts around the country.

    It also could restore a major foothold for the Islamic State less than 70 miles west of Baghdad in the crucial Anbar Province, which has been the scene of bloodshed and seesaw battles since the U.S.-led invasion more than 12 years ago.

    Fighting gripped Ramadi throughout the day, but it appeared the Islamic State militiamen had the upper hand.

    The militants seized the government compound in downtown Ramadi and hoisted the group’s black flag. Battles then moved to pockets of the city still held by Iraq forces. There was no immediate sign of U.S.-led airstrikes, which have been waged against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria since last year.

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    Government forces had managed to hold on to the largely Sunni Muslim city of about 900,000 people in recent months, despite regular attacks by the Islamic State. The militant group, also known as ISIS or ISIL, seized most of the rest of Anbar last summer as part of sweeps that took other areas such as Mosul, the largest city in northern Iraq.

    “The city’s fallen. They’ve taken it,” Maj. Omar Khamis al-Dahl, a senior officer in the Ramadi police, said by telephone.

    But the governor of Anbar province, Sohaib Alrawi, said in a Twitter message that the situation in the city was “dire,” but that battles were ongoing.

    Still, the attacks appear to demonstrate the resilience of the Islamic State despite facing steady airstrikes and losing territory to pro-government forces in recent months.

    On the Iraqi side, the Ramadi battles also suggested that pro-government forces — including the military and Iranian-backed Shiite militias — remain hindered by poor coordination, corruption and sectarian squabbles, analysts say.

    Dozens of soldiers fled the city overnight Thursday during the initial stages of the Islamic State attack, which involved heavy artillery and multiple car bombings, said Dahl. More than 60 police officers have been killed in the fighting, and hundreds of police and soldiers were surrounded in a military compound in the center of the city, he said.

    The attack on Ramadi comes more than a month after pro-government forces, backed by U.S. airstrikes, drove Islamic State militants out of the city of Tikrit, an advance that officials in Baghdad touted as a major victory.

    The government has hoped to push northward to drive Islamic State forces out of Mosul, a stronghold of the militants since they captured it in June 2014.

    “We have not received reinforcements from the government, and there will be a massacre of these people like there was in Speicher,” said Dahl, the Ramadi officer. He referred to a former U.S. military base near Tikrit where an estimated 1,700 Iraqi soldiers were captured and killed en masse by the Islamic State last summer.

    In a statement, Iraq’s defense ministry sought to play down the Ramadi attacks, warning citizens “not to believe rumors promoted by the terrorists of Daesh.” Daesh is an Arabic term for the Islamic State.

    The statement added that Iraqi forcers were fighting to “fully purge the city of Ramadi” of the Islamic State.

    The government in Baghdad has not sent reinforcements to Ramadi because its miltiary forces are stretched thin, said Muhannad Haimour, spokesmen for Anbar’s Gov. Sohaib Alrawi.

    “There are many fronts that the Iraqi army is dealing with. It’s not just Ramadi where the fighting is taking place, and so the resources are stretched,” he said. "But we believe that with the help of the international coalition, the situation will improve in the next few days.”

    Omar Shehan, tribal militiaman who fights alongside Ramadi police, said that the city’s police force had largely retreated Thursday night to the military compound that is besieged by Islamic State militants. Used as the government’s military-operations center for Anbar, the compound, in the center-west part of Ramadi, would fall without support from pro-government forces in Baghdad, he said.

    “It’s desperate now,” he said.

    The assault on Thursday evening began by surprise, with Islamic State militants entering downtown Ramadi wearing police uniforms, Shehan said. Those militants gunned down scores of policemen, clearing the way for an intense assault involving rocket-propelled grenades, artillery and car bombings, he said.

    “When they came to the front line last night, at first we thought they were policemen,” Shehan said, speaking by telephone from Ramadi. “Then they started killing us.”

    The downtown compound, which houses the Anbar provincial, fell at about 2 pm, according to police and residents. They said that the militants, who placed the Islamic State’s black flag on the top of the compound, stormed Ramadi from the west and from the Abu Farraj neighborhood, which is in the north. The nearby police headquarters also was damaged in the fighting, although police had largely vacated the facility hours earlier.

    Ali Dulaimi, a 28-year-old student at Anbar University, fled the downtown area with his three brothers and parents last night. Because the Islamic State controls so much of the city, they have been unable to find a way to escape, he said, adding that bodies litter streets.

    “There are dead people lying all over the street as we running away,” he said.

    “It was just scenes of carnage in a World War II movie, with bombing all around and dead people lying in the streets.”

    Anbar Province — part of Iraq’s Sunni heartland — has played a central role in Iraq’s conflicts since the toppling of Saddam Hussein, whose regime favored the Sunni tribes in the region.

    Anbar became a center of the Sunni insurgency after the U.S.-led invasion, including the scene of some of the war’s most intense urban combat for American forces during battles in Ramadi and Fallujah. In 2006, Anbar became a centerpiece of Washington’s counterinsurgency strategy when some main Sunni tribes made alliances with the U.S. military.

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    May 19th – The media’s been asking GOP presidential candidates this question: “Knowing what you know now would you still have sent U.S troops into Iraq?”

    You mean the same Iraq war that based upon the intelligence at the time was supported by Hillary, Biden, Kerry & Reid? That’s like asking Seahawks QB Russell Wilson, “Knowing what you know now, at the Super Bowl would you still have passed at the one-yard-line?”

    Though military advisors were against it, Obama pulled ALL the troops out and now Ramadi’s been captured by O’s “JV team.”

    Debbie Lee, whose Navy SEAL son Marc was killed defending Ramadi, is rightfully furious at the Joint Chiefs chairman for now saying that Ramadi is “not symbolic in any way.” The Gold Star mom said this after seeing the black ISIS flag flying over the city: “Gut wrenching. The sacrifices that were made, the blood that's been shed.”

    Mrs. Lee, as with all those who sacrificed so much while serving in Iraq, your son is an American hero. And no politician or DC bureaucrat can ever change that! P

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    Iraqi forces fled Ramadi without a fight
    Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY 3:46 p.m. EDT May 23, 2015


    WASHINGTON — Iraqi security forces fled Ramadi without putting up a fight, despite holding as much as a 10-to-1 advantage over Islamic State militants, according to two senior U.S. defense officials.

    The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to discuss key details of the battle, said the primary blame in Ramadi rested with Iraqi security forces.

    In the days leading up to its fall, a combination of spectacular car bomb attacks, the ambush of an Iraq army patrol and marginal weather spooked the Iraqi forces. The trigger may have been a minor sandstorm that prompted Iraqi commanders to believe that U.S. warplanes would not be able to bomb Islamic State targets.

    A phone call to U.S. officials would have cleared up that misunderstanding, one of the officials said.

    Iraqi commandos, soldiers and police officers panicked when they thought they wouldn't be protected by U.S. warplanes, one official said, and abandoned their posts. They left behind U.S.-supplied vehicles and weapons, which are now in the hands of the militants.

    The fall of Ramadi last weekend, coming just days after the Pentagon declared Iraqi forces in control and holding much of the western Iraqi city, came as a major blow to the U.S. strategy to train and assist local forces in the fight against extremists from the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL.

    The capture of the capital of Anbar province, 70 miles west of Baghdad, has increased calls for greater U.S. participation in the fight against the Islamic State. President Obama, in an interview The Atlantic magazine, called Ramadi a setback but blamed its fall on Iraqi security forces who hadn't been trained or backed by American troops and said it would not prompt a change in U.S. policy.

    Critics of the U.S. policy on Capitol Hill, including Sen. John McCain, the Arizona Republican who chairs the Armed Services Committee, called a hearing late in the week to discuss the strategy in light of Ramadi's fall. It highlighted, he said, "the shortcomings of the administration's indecisive policy, inadequate commitment and incoherent strategy."

    McCain cast blame on the Obama administration, in part, for its "constrained" use of airstrikes on the Islamic State and on the strength of Iraqi security forces.

    The hasty retreat prompted Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to tell reporters that Iraqi security forces "drove out of Ramadi" but weren't driven from it by the militants.

    Islamic State fighters already appear to be constructing berms and building defenses inside the city, one U.S. defense official said.

    On Saturday, the U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State announced several airstrikes, including four near Ramadi that hit two militant tactical units, destroying multiple heavy machine guns, two vehicles with bombs, two other vehicles, a fighting position and three armored vehicles and a tank in Islamic State-controlled territory.

    The Pentagon is now providing 2,000 shoulder-fired missiles the Iraqi government has requested. The weapons have the ability to penetrate the armor on car bombs of the sort Islamic State suicide bombers detonated in Ramadi.

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    Iraq’s Decline into Chaos Traces Back to 2011, Not 2003[I]
    by Charles Krauthammer May 21, 2015 8:00 PM

    Ramadi falls. The Iraqi army flees. The great 60-nation anti–Islamic State coalition so grandly proclaimed by the Obama administration is nowhere to be seen.

    Instead, it’s the defense minister of Iran who flies into Baghdad, an unsubtle demonstration of who’s in charge — while the U.S. air campaign proves futile and America’s alleged strategy for combating the Islamic State is in free fall.

    It gets worse. The Gulf States’ top leaders, betrayed and bitter, ostentatiously boycott President Obama’s failed Camp David summit. “We were America’s best friend in the Arab world for 50 years,” laments Saudi Arabia’s former intelligence chief.

    Note: “were,” not “are.”

    We are scraping bottom. Following six years of President Obama’s steady and determined withdrawal from the Middle East, America’s standing in the region has collapsed. And yet the question incessantly asked of the various presidential candidates is not about that.

    It’s a retrospective hypothetical: Would you have invaded Iraq in 2003 if you had known then what we know now?

    First, the question is not just a hypothetical, but an inherently impossible hypothetical. It contradicts itself. Had we known there were no weapons of mass destruction, the very question would not have arisen. The premise of the war — the basis for going to the U.N., to the Congress, and, indeed, to the nation — was Iraq’s possession of WMD in violation of the central condition for the cease-fire that ended the first Gulf War. No WMD, no hypothetical to answer in the first place.

    Second, the “if you knew then” question implicitly locates the origin and cause of the current disasters in 2003. As if the fall of Ramadi was predetermined then, as if the author of the current regional collapse is George W. Bush. The origin and cause of the current disasters in the Middle East is located in 2011, not 2003. This is nonsense. The fact is that by the end of Bush’s tenure, the war had been won.

    You can argue that the price of that victory was too high.

    Fine. We can debate that until the end of time.

    But what is not debatable is that it was a victory. Bush bequeathed to Obama a success.

    By whose measure? By Obama’s.

    As he told the troops at Fort Bragg on December 14, 2011,

    “We are leaving behind a sovereign, stable, and self-reliant Iraq, with a representative government that was elected by its people.” This was, said the president, a “moment of success.”
    Which Obama proceeded to fully squander. With the 2012 election approaching, he chose to liquidate our military presence in Iraq. We didn’t just withdraw our forces. We abandoned, destroyed, or turned over our equipment, stores, installations, and bases. We surrendered our most valuable strategic assets, such as control of Iraqi airspace, soon to become the indispensable conduit for Iran to supply and sustain the Assad regime in Syria and cement its influence all the way to the Mediterranean.

    And, most relevant to the fall of Ramadi, we abandoned the vast intelligence network we had so painstakingly constructed in Anbar province, without which our current patchwork operations there are largely blind and correspondingly feeble. The current collapse was not predetermined in 2003 but in 2011.

    Isn’t that what should be asked of Hillary Clinton?

    We know you think the invasion of 2003 was a mistake. But what about the abandonment of 2011? Was that not a mistake?


    Madam Secretary: When you arrived at State, al-Qaeda in Iraq had been crushed and expelled from Anbar. The Iraqi government had from Basra to Sadr City fought and defeated the radical, Iranian-proxy Shiite militias. Yet today these militias are back, once again dominating Baghdad. On your watch, we gave up our position as the dominant influence over a “sovereign, stable, and self-reliant Iraq” — forfeiting that position gratuitously to Iran. Was that not a mistake? And where were you when it was made? Iraq is now a battlefield between the Sunni jihadists of the Islamic State and the Shiite jihadists of Iran’s Islamic Republic. There is no viable center. We abandoned it. The Obama administration’s unilateral pullout created a vacuum for the entry of the worst of the worst. And the damage was self-inflicted.

    The current situation in Iraq, says David Petraeus, “is tragic foremost because it didn’t have to turn out this way. The hard-earned progress of the surge was sustained for over three years.”

    Do the math. That’s 2009 through 2011, the first three Obama years. And then came the unraveling. When? The last U.S. troops left Iraq on December 18, 2011. Want to do retrospective hypotheticals? Start there.

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    Had we known there were no weapons of mass destruction, the very question would not have arisen. The premise of the war — the basis for going to the U.N., to the Congress, and, indeed, to the nation — was Iraq’s possession of WMD in violation of the central condition for the cease-fire that ended the first Gulf War. No WMD, no hypothetical to answer in the first place.
    Democrats on Iraq + WMD's (Weapons of Mass Destruction)
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    At one time the Democrats and Republicans agreed on one thing: that Iraq and Saddam Hussein had WMD's (Weapons of Mass Destruction) and would use them.

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    Obama just admitted today in his press conference at the Pentagon that he doesn’t believe American troops can defeat ISIS:

    It is not enough for us to simply send an American troops to temporarily set back organizations like ISIL, but to then, as soon as we leave see that void filled once again with extremists. It is going to be vital for us to make sure that we are preparing the kinds of local ground forces and security forces with our partners that can not only succeed against ISIL, but then sustained in terms of security and in terms of governance.
    We had won the war in Iraq until Obama showed up and gave it away by pulling all of our troops out. And then ISIS happened.

    Now he’s suggesting that American troops can’t succeed against ISIS, saying that we can only ‘temporarily’ set them back and that they will begin again once we leave.

    So why leave?

    Heck, if we had destroyed them in the first place in 2014 when they were much smaller, they wouldn’t exist today all over the Middle East.

    Also, if Obama is so interested in partnerships, why deny weapons to the Kurds who are on the front lines against ISIS? Why deny aiding Egypt in their fight against ISIS when they ask for our help?

    Just more lies.

    Watch:

    Reporter: As an army reservist, I’m curious to know if you have any plans to send more troops overseas right now?

    There are no current plans to do so. That’s not something we currently discussed. I’ve always said that I’m going to do what’s necessary to protect the homeland. One of the principles that we all agree on though – I press folks pretty hard, because in these conversations with my military advisors, I want to make sure I’m going blunt and unadulterated and uncensored advice. But in every one of the conversations we’ve had, the strong consensus is that in order for us to succeed long term in this fight against ISIL, we have to develop local security forces that can sustain progress.

    It is not enough for us to simply send an American troops to temporarily set back organizations like ISIL, but to then, as soon as we leave see that void filled once again with extremists. It is going to be vital for us to make sure that we are preparing the kinds of local ground forces and security forces with our partners that can not only succeed against ISIL, but then sustained in terms of security and in terms of governance. Because if we try to do everything ourselves, all across the Middle East, all across N. Africa, we’ll be playing whack-a-mole and there would be unintended consequences that ultimately make us less secure.
    Video at link : http://therightscoop.com/obama-admit...#ixzz3f9icnnIk


    Obama just admitted today in his press conference at the Pentagon that he doesn’t believe American troops can defeat ISIS:

    It is not enough for us to simply send an American troops to temporarily set back organizations like ISIL, but to then, as soon as we leave see that void filled once again with extremists. It is going to be vital for us to make sure that we are preparing the kinds of local ground forces and security forces with our partners that can not only succeed against ISIL, but then sustained in terms of security and in terms of governance.


    We had won the war in Iraq until Obama showed up and gave it away by pulling all of our troops out. And then ISIS happened.

    Now he’s suggesting that American troops can’t succeed against ISIS, saying that we can only ‘temporarily’ set them back and that they will begin again once we leave.

    So why leave?

    Heck, if we had destroyed them in the first place in 2014 when they were much smaller, they wouldn’t exist today all over the Middle East.
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    Truck Bomb Kills About 60 at Market in Baghdad Neighborhood of Sadr City
    New York Times · 10 hours ago

    BAGHDAD — A devastating truck bomb struck a food market early Thursday morning in the teeming Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City, killing about 60, injuring hundreds …

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    Suicide bomber kills at least 60 at checkpoint
    Al Jazeera - 14 hrs ago

    Iraq: Suicide truck bomber kills 30 at checkpoint: Vehicle loaded with explosives also wounds 60 security forces and civilians in latest brazen assault.© Provided by Al Jazeera Vehicle loaded with explosives also wounds 60 security forces and civilians in latest brazen assault.

    A suicide bomber driving a truck attacked a security checkpoint on a strategic highway south of Iraq's capital on Sunday killing at least 60 people.

    Another 60 were wounded in the massive blast near the city of Hilla, police officials said.

    Al Jazeera's Jane Arraf said Hilla is about 90km south of Baghdad.

    "It was apparently a suicide bombing that occurred at a checkpoint that is usually manned by Iraq soldiers and federal police forces. A long line of cars along that key road were also caught in the blast," Arraf said.

    It wasn't immediately clear who launched the suicide attack.

    The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group has recently carried out a string of deadly assaults against Iraqi security forces.

    Over the past week, a double bombing at a market in Baghdad's Sadr city killed more than 70 people. The following day a suicide attack at a funeral north of Baghdad killed about 30.

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