DHAKA: A suicide bomber rammed a vehicle into an intelligence headquarters in Baghdad Saturday, killing at least eight people.

Police and medical sources said, reports TDS.

The attack came a day after Shiite militiamen machinegunned 68 Sunni worshipers at a village mosque in Diyala Province, raising the prospect of revenge attacks as politicians try to form a government capable of countering Islamic State (IS) militants.

An advance by IS through northern Iraq has alarmed the Baghdad government and its Western allies and drawn airstrikes in Iraq for the first time since the withdrawal of American troops in 2011.

Although the air campaign has caused a few setbacks for IS, they do not address the wider problem of sectarian warfare which the group has fueled with attacks on Shiites.

Bombings, kidnappings and execution-style shootings occur almost daily, echoing the dark days of 2006-2007, the peak of a sectarian civil war.

BDST: 1655 HRS, AUG 23, 2014