Report just reaching the Forefront has it that at least 70 people have been killed and more than 100 wounded in twin suicide bombings in Baghdad, officials said.
The bombings in a Shi'ite district of the Iraqi capital - Sadr City - were claimed by Islamic State.
Police said two suicide bombers riding motorcycles blew themselves up in a crowded mobile phone market.
A Reuters witness saw pools of blood on the ground with slippers, shoes and mobile phones at the site of the blast.
In a statement circulated online, Islamic State said the bombers had killed and wounded "hundreds of polytheist rejectionists", as the ultra-hardline Sunni group refers to Shi'ite Muslims.
Earlier, IS militants attacked Iraqi security forces on the western outskirts of Baghdad, killing at least 17 people, officials said.
Suicide bombers and gunmen in vehicles and on foot launched the attack on Abu Ghraib at dawn, seizing positions in a grain silo and a cemetery.
Fighting was still raging at the silo site on Sunday evening, security officials said.
Iraqi forces, backed by US-led coalition airstrikes, have driven IS back recently in western Anbar province.
They are also preparing for an offensive to retake the northern city of Mosul.
But the militants are still able to strike in Baghdad and other cities outside their main areas of control.
Baghdad-based security analyst Jasim al-Bahadli said Sunday's attacks suggested it was premature to declare that IS was losing the initiative in Iraq.
"Government forces must do a better job repelling attacks launched by Daesh," he said, using an Arabic acronym for the terror group.
"What happened today could be a setback for the security forces."
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