At least 40 people were killed and more than 60 wounded after a suicide car bomb attack targeted a police officer’s wedding in Amiriyat al-Fallujah, which is 35 kilometers south of Fallujah and home to pro-government Sunni tribal fighters, who fought IS for more than two years and repelled many attacks on their town before the armed group was pushed out of Fallujah in June.
No group has yet claimed responsibility for yesterday’s explosion, but police said they believed that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant group was responsible for the attack.