A suicide bomber Wednesday detonated a pick-up truck in Sadr City, a heavily populated poor Shiite suburb of Baghdad, killing at least 15 and wounding 50, security sources said.
The explosion, the deadliest in Baghdad so far this year, targeted a crowded street full of garages and used car dealers.
ISIS has stepped up bombings in Iraq last year, in retaliation to a U.S.-backed campaign that dislodged the hard-line Sunni group from most Iraqi cities it took over in 2014. The militants also control parts of neighboring Syria.
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