巴格达星期天发生的重大袭击事件引起政治效应，伊拉克内政部长提出辞职。
穆罕默德·哈班星期二把权力移交给内政部副部长，等待伊拉克总理阿巴迪考虑他的辞呈。这次卡车自杀炸弹袭击造成至少175人丧生，公众的愤怒直指阿巴迪本人。
伊斯兰国激进分子对这次炸弹袭击承担责任，说他们的袭击目标是什叶派穆斯林。
这次袭击正值穆斯林斋月进入尾声，联合国的伊拉克事务特使库比什原本希望在这段时间里暴力事件会暂时停顿。联合国人权事务高级专员扎伊德·拉阿德·侯赛因也对无辜者被害表示痛惜，谴责逊尼派极端组织伊斯兰国的行为是“可怕的暴行“。
Iraq's interior minister has offered to resign, part of the political fallout from Sunday's devastating attack in Baghdad.
Mohammed Ghabban Tuesday handed over authority to his deputy until the offer is considered by Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, himself the target of public rage after a suicide truck bombing killed at least 175 people.
Islamic State militants claimed responsibility for the bombing, saying they were targeting Shi'ites.
The attack came near the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, a time when U.N. envoy for Iraq Jan Kubis had hoped there would be a lull in violence. U.N. Human Rights High Commissioner Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein also deplored the loss of innocent lives and condemned, what he called, this latest "horrendous atrocity" by the extremist Sunni group Islamic State.
