Bombing kills 8 anti-ISIL Shia volunteer forces in Iraq

At least eight Shia volunteer forces fighting ISIL Takfiri militants have been killed in a bomb attack near the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, official sources say.

Iraqi officials said the incident happened late on Saturday in the town of Taji, situated 20 kilometers (12 miles) north of Baghdad.

They said 17 people also sustained injuries when a bomber blew himself up at a gathering of Shia volunteer forces in the Iraqi town.

The overall security situation in Iraq has worsened over the past months after the ISIL Takfiri terrorists, of whom many are foreign militants, took control of parts of Iraq’s northern and western regions.

According to the United Nations, over 1,110 people were killed in acts of violence across the violence-stricken Arab country in September.

The ISIL terrorists have been committing heinous crimes in the captured areas in Iraq and Syria, including mass executions and beheading of people.

The extremist militants received training to use both light and heavy weapons with the help of the US government at a secret base in Jordan in 2012, informed Jordanian officials say.