Iraq

A suicide bomber has killed 26 people Saturday who were attending a funeral of a member of Iraq’s Shabak minority in the northern province of Nineveh, Reuter’s reports. The attack took place in Bartella, 25 km east of Mosul, the provincial capital. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack but in the past Sunni militants have targeted the Shabak minority as they are predominately Shi’ite and have warned them to leave the area. The 30,000 strong Shabak community have their own distinct language and live near the Turkish border. Two other attacks in the Nineveh province left a policeman dead and three others wounded, while an explosion in Dujail, near Baghdad killed two more people.