title: Islamic State claims responsibility for suicide attacks in southern Iraq: Amaq
text: BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Islamic State has claimed suicide attacks that killed at least 50 people and injured more than 80 in a southern Iraqi city on Thursday. A statement on the Amaq news agency, which supports the hardline Sunni Muslim group, said the attacks carried out by the its suicide fighters targeted a restaurant and a checkpoint, killing  dozens of Shi ites . 