{"id":44091,"date":"2018-01-13T23:51:41","date_gmt":"2018-01-13T18:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=44091"},"modified":"2018-01-13T23:51:41","modified_gmt":"2018-01-13T18:51:41","slug":"3-killed-in-suicide-bomb-attack-in-baghdad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=44091","title":{"rendered":"3 killed in suicide bomb attack in Baghdad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BAGHDAD, Jan 13 (TNS):<\/strong>\u00a0 A suicide bomb attack near a security checkpoint in the Iraqi capital killed at least three people on Saturday, a police officer said.<\/p>\n<p>The officer, speaking on condition of anonymity, gave an &#8220;initial toll of three people killed and 11 wounded&#8221; in the attack.<\/p>\n<p>The Baghdad military command said the suicide bomber targeted a checkpoint near Aden Square in northern Baghdad.<\/p>\n<p>There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but most such attacks in Iraq are the work of the Islamic State group.<\/p>\n<p>In December, the government announced the &#8220;end of the war&#8221; against IS, which has been expelled from the Baghdad region and urban areas of Iraq that it controlled.<\/p>\n<p>Militant elements are still active, however, north of Baghdad.<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAGHDAD, Jan 13 (TNS):\u00a0 A suicide bomb attack near a security checkpoint in the Iraqi capital killed at least three people on Saturday, a police officer said. The officer, speaking on condition of anonymity, gave an &#8220;initial toll of three people killed and 11 wounded&#8221; in the attack. The Baghdad military command said the suicide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[975,19],"tags":[1026,478,932],"class_list":["post-44091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-baghdad","category-world","tag-baghdad","tag-bomb-blast","tag-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44093,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44091\/revisions\/44093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}