After battlefield defeats, IS hits softer targets
A bloody siege on a mall in Baghdad, suicide bombs in Diyala and a string of bombs behind the line of Kurdistan's southern border could signal a resurgence of asymmetric warfare.
An Iraqi boy walks past a damaged shop front at the Jawaher mall in eastern Baghdad on Jan. 12, 2016, the day after a bomb attack. (AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images)
SULAIMANIYA - Militants launched a coordinated series of bombings and suicide attacks deep inside several government-controlled areas of Iraq on Monday, signaling what could be a renewed embrace of asymmetric tactics by the self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS).
In the most high-profile incident, gunmen and bombers attacked a mall in Baghdad, killing at least 10 people and wounding at least 25, according to a senior Interior Ministry official. Militants also hit targets farther north, with suicide attacks in Diyala province's Muqdadiya and Khanaqin, as well as four bombings in towns within the southern border of the Kurdistan Regional Government's (KRG) security cordon.
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