Baghdad — Militants unleashed a wave of bombings targeting commercial areas in and around Baghdad yesterday, killing at least 20 people, officials said as Iraqi troops poised to recapture the Islamic State-held city of Fallujah, west of Iraq’s capital.

Shortly after the bombs hit, the extremist Islamic State, which has been behind recent deadly attacks in Baghdad and beyond, claimed responsibility for two of the explosions, both in the Iraqi capital.

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