Violence raged in Iraq,
too, as two deadly car bombs exploded in Baghdad
on Monday. The
militants claimed they were behind that bombing and another that
targeted the Iraqi police checkpoint in the Shia neighborhood of
Khadimiya in the northern part of the Iraqi capital.
In Iraq Tuesday, four
people were killed and 12 others were injured when a suicide car bomb
exploded in an area called al-Utayfia. The bomb struck a security
checkpoint at one of the entrances to the predominately Shiite
neighborhood al-Kadumiya, police officials told CNN. ISIS has claimed
that was also its work.
An extremist Islamic
group that wants to control land from Iraq to Syria, ISIS, which calls
itself the Islamic State, desires a society that adheres strictly to
Sharia law.
The U.S. and a coalition of more than 50 nations is trying to battle back the militants.
In Iraq, the United States launched one airstrike Monday.
But American airpower --
aided by Saudi Arabia -- was focused intensely on Syria. Central Command
said Tuesday that it had bombarded ISIS near Kobani, using bomber and
fighter aircraft to fire 21 airstrikes that destroyed two ISIS staging
locations, a building, a truck and two vehicles and damaged other ISIS
property.
Another U.S. strike near
the Syrian city of Dayr az Zawr struck a modular oil refinery and
initial indications are that this strike was successful.
The strikes are meant to
prevent the extremist Muslim group from resupplying and massing combat
power on the Kurdish held portions of Kobani, Central Command said in a
release.
All coalition aircraft
used in missions against ISIS departed the space safely, the military
said, and analysis of the strikes suggests that they slowed ISIS'
advance.
But Central Command
warned that "the security situation on the ground there remains fluid"
with ISIS attempting to gain territory and beat back the Kurdish
military that is putting up a fierce fight.
Source:CNN
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