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On the same day a suicide bomb exploded in the southeastern city of Ajdabiya, killing at least 11 people, dozens of members of the al Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) also struck the southern city of Raqa. The suicide attack on Raqa, also known as Kobani, has claimed a number of lives among other civilians, a local activist told state news agency SANA.
A statement on the government-run Al-Watan newspaper quoted Syrian Interior Minister Ibrahim Abu al-Muhaysini as saying that the city of Raqa “is under the control of Daesh terrorists” and “the city’s martyrs and those who supported their martyrdom and their families, and they will be avenged one by one.”
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The attacks came less than a week after the Iraqi government released a video of masked gunmen killing 21 civilians in Nisaybin, another predominantly Sunni city, outside Baghdad. ISIS claims responsibility for the killings in a Twitter post.
Yazidi members celebrate the killing of an Iraqi soldier and a woman with a baby in a video distributed on March 23, 2014, that ISIS claimed was taken from the hometown of a Yazidi woman. (Photo: AP)
Yazidis, who make up about 11 percent of the population of Iraq’s Yazidi community, have long been targeted by ISIS militants. They are among Iraq’s most prominent Christian and other minority religious groups. ISIS recently established a base of operations in neighboring Syria.
The two incidents underscore the difficult job that the United States is currently undertaking, said Jeff Hawkins, former assistant secretary of state for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor and a fellow at the Brookings Institution.
“I’m not sure there’s much we can do on behalf of [ISIS], but I think it’s important to know exactly where the Iraqi security forces, the U.S. government and the world, are in Iraq right now,” he said. “They are facing some tremendous challenges. It will be the job of the security forces to protect them.”
Hawkins said that the ISIS videos that emerged from Iraq show the group’s methods and tactics
