Ramadan is in full swing not just in France, Kuwait, and Tunisia, but in Baghdad, less than 100 miles from the domains of the Islamic State. “Bomb attacks kill four people at Baghdad street markets,” Egypt Independent, June 27, 2015:
Four people were killed in separate bomb attacks in Baghdad on Saturday, police and medics said.
In the Obeidi district of eastern Baghdad a bomb exploded near a crowded market, killing two people.
Another bomb went off near a crowded grocery market in the Doura district of southern Baghdad, the police and medics said.
Iraq faces multiple security challenges, including Islamic State insurgents who control a third of the country and a sectarian civil war.