At least 17 people killed in terrorist attack in Baghdad

Two suicide bombers on Monday carried out an attack in the southeast of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad.

At least 17 people were killed and 28 others injured in a suicide bombing in Baghdad, on Monday, the National Iraqi News Agency reported citing a security source.

The Iraqi Interior Ministry earlier reported that two suicide bombers on Monday carried out an attack in the Al-Nahrawan area located in the southeast of the Iraqi capital.

Iraqi government is still trying to eliminate terrorist threat in the country and to normalize the situation. On July 10, the Iraqi government announced that the Daesh terror group was defeated in Mosul, one of Iraq's largest cities that terrorists claimed in 2014. The Iraqi forces began operation to liberate it in the fall of 2016.