A female suicide bomber detonated among a group of Shiite worshippers near a mosque in Karbala, killing at least 39 people and wounding 54. Iraq marked the 20th anniversary of Saddam Hussein’s chemical bombing and gassing of Iraqi Kurds in the northeast city of Halabja. Iraqi forces, advised by US Special Forces, detained the suspected leaders of two different improvised explosive device cells and one cell member operating in Mosul.
