The man wearing an explosive vest emerged from a car and calmly marched toward the gates of the intelligence building in Iraq’s northern city of Kirkuk.

When he ignored their shouts to halt, guards opened fire, and he blew himself up, wounding three security personnel in the first week of Ramazan.

The assaults are the latest in a resurgence of attacks by the Islamic State group in northern Iraq.

The renewed mayhem is a sign that the militant group is taking advantage of governments absorbed in tackling the coronavirus pandemic and the ensuing slide into economic chaos.

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