ISIS teen targets Iraqi football match killing 32

ISIS claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing at a football match in the Iraqi town of Iskandariya on 25 March. Many of the 32 people who died were children and teenagers, in total, 84 others were injured. The bomber detonated his explosives at the end of the match while the trophy giving ceremony was under way, killing many of those who had played during the game. Iskandariya, which lies 40km south of the capital, Baghdad, is a largely Shia town. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, who was in Iraq for talks with the government, pressed the country’s leaders to increase attempts at reconciliation between the Shia and Sunni communities in an effort to defeat ISIS. In the face of Shia protests, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has announced that a new cabinet will be formed within a week.

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At least 29 people have been killed in a suicide bomb attack in a village south of Baghdad, Iraq.

The suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowd after a local football match near Iskandariyah, a town around 40 kilometres (25 miles) south of the capital.

"They were just handing the trophy to the winners, the suicide attacker blew himself up in the crowd," Al-Asriya, a police captain from the village, told Agence France Presse, the Daily Mail reported.

More than 50 were injured in the blast, he added.

Medical officials confirmed the death toll, which could rise.

Isis militants were behind the attack, the terror group's Amaq news agency has said.

The group has been waging a campaign of suicide bombings in and around the capital as Iraqi forces and their allies battle the militants in the north and west of the country.

Additional reporting by agencies