ISIS militants kill at least 24 in Iraq, Yemen

Taji gas plant after ISIS attack
(Image credit: Sabah Arar/AFP/Getty Images)

Islamic State militants killed at least 12 people and wounded 25 others Sunday in an attack on a natural gas plant in Iraq, officials told The Associated Press. A car bomb exploded at the gate in Taji, just north of Baghdad, before suicide bombers entered the plant.

In Yemen, a purported ISIS suicide bomber killed 12 people and wounded 17 others Sunday outside a police base. The policemen killed were just returning to work in Mukalla after the government recaptured the port city from Yemen's al Qaeda affiliate.

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Julie Kliegman

Julie Kliegman is a freelance writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in BuzzFeed, Vox, Mental Floss, Paste, the Tampa Bay Times and PolitiFact. Her cats can do somersaults.