Al-Qaeda offensive in Iraq

Three car bombs killed 25 people at a government compound near Baquba city in Iraq and the Anbar province police chief died on patrol when suspected ISIL militants blew up his convoy

A car bomb followed by a suicide bombing hit offices of a Kurdish political party and security forces in Iraq on June 8, killing 17 people, police and doctors said.

The blasts in the town of Jalawla, north of Baghdad, also wounded 50 people, the sources said.