Iraqi forces kill two suicide bombers in Baghdad

Iraqi security forces killed two suicide bombers who were believed to belong to ISIS organization after being besieged in one of the capital's areas, the army said. This comes as the Ministry of Immigration announced the return of nearly two million displaced to the liberated areas throughout the country.

A statement of the ministry reported that the Chairman of the High Committee for Relief and Shelter of the Displaced Minister of Immigration, Jassim Mohammed Jaff, called families for returning to their origin areas, to register in the branches of the ministry and the concerned offices to take the grant allocated to them,  amounting to one and a half million dinars.

The statement added that the ministry has opened 14 receiving centers in the provinces of Salah al-Din and Anbar during the past few days for the purpose of registration of returning families. "The number of displaced persons returning to their areas of origin in all the provinces of the country amounted to nearly two million returnees and the return rate of the total number of displaced persons was 47% and is expected to increase in the coming months to reach 60%," read the statement.

"The rate of return of displaced people in Anbar province reached 64 percent, the return rate in Diyala governorate reached 58 percent, Salah al-Din 96 percent, while the percentage of returnees to the liberated areas in Nineveh reached 7 percent," Jaff said.

In the capital, the Baghdad Operations Command said, on Saturday, that the forces killed two extremists wearing two explosive belts after the clash with them.

 A police source said that a sticky bomb attached to the bottom of a civilian car exploded today as it passed the highway near the area of ​​Ma'alef south of Baghdad, killing the driver immediately.The source added that an explosive device was placed near the industrial neighborhood in the district of Taji north of Baghdad, was exploded leaving one citizen killed and other injured.

The leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, warned, on Saturday, US President Donald Trump to plunge himself into a new holocaust in Syria, which may be similar to the Vietnam War, urging Bashar Assad to resign.

"I do not rule out that Trump's decision to bomb Syria is permission for ISIS to expand in other areas," Sadr said. "If America wants to be a sponsor of peace, it must support dialogue and save people in all regions, whether in Palestine, Burma, Bahrain or other areas," he added.