Gunmen stormed the shopping mall after setting off a car bomb and launching a suicide attack at the entrance.
Gunmen stormed the shopping mall after setting off a car bomb and launching a suicide attack at the entrance.
Baghdad
: Iraq's prime minister has vowed to continue the fight against Islamic State militants a day after the group launched a suicide attack on a shopping mall in the capital, killing 18 people.
Touring the bombed mall in eastern New Baghdad on Tuesday, Haider al-Abadi described the attack as a -"desperate attempt-" by militants after they lost control of the key western city of Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province. He says that Iraq's government will -"spare no efforts-" in expelling IS forces from the country.
Gunmen stormed the shopping mall on Monday after setting off a car bomb and launching a suicide attack at the entrance. Iraqi forces later surrounded the building, landing troops on the roof before clashing with attackers inside, killing two gunmen and arresting four.
