Lebanon Denounces Iraq Bombing Attack

Lebanon's Foreign Ministry denounced Monday's bombing attack that rocked the Iraqi capital of Baghdad killing and wounding several, a ministry statement said.

The Ministry said the attack follows Iraq's “triumph against the Islamic State terror group and the successive defeats it achieved against it. It reflects the organization's attempt to prove its standing on the Iraqi arena by shedding more blood of innocent lives.”

A double suicide bombing killed 26 people in Baghdad on Monday, the second such attack in the Iraqi capital in three days.

Two suicide bombers blew themselves up in Tayyaran Square in central Baghdad.

In December, the Iraqi government announced the "end of the war" against IS, which has been expelled from the Baghdad region and urban areas of Iraq that it controlled.

Jihadist elements are still active, however, north of Baghdad.