BAQUBA, Iraq: Three suicide attacks against offices in a Kurdish-controlled Iraqi town killed at least 40 people on Sunday (early Monday in Manila), many of them Kurdish forces veterans volunteering to re-enlist, officials said.

The Islamic State (IS) jihadist group claimed the attack via affiliated Twitter accounts, saying the three suicide bombers were from Germany, Saudi Arabia and Turkey.

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