A series of Islamic State bombings on Wednesday killed at least 88 people in Baghdad, marking one of the deadliest days of insurgent violence in Iraq’s capital in years and exposing the government’s failure to uproot extremists. The first bomb struck a crowded market in the predominantly Shiite Muslim neighborhood of Sadr City, killing at least 62 people and wounding 86, mostly women and children, said Interior Ministry spokesman Brig. Gen. Saad Maan Hours later, a second suicide bombing outside the main entrance to the Kadhimiya neighborhood, home to an important Shiite shrine, killed 15 and wounded 31, local officials said. A man wearing an explosives vest detonated himself while waiting in a security line. A suicide car bombing then killed 11 people and wounded 48 others in western Baghdad, the officials said. Islamic State said in […]