Iraq: Car bomb kills 23, injures another 60.

(Tuz Khurmatu) A car bomb was detonated at around noon near a crowded market in the Northern Iraqi town of Tuz Khurmatu, killing 23 people and injuring another 60 people. 

The town is situated just south of Mosul and is predominantly populated by Turkmen lending to the view that ISIS specifically targeted the town in which to accelerate the discord between the Turks Iraqis and the Kurds in which to sow as much confusion and destruction as possible. Tuz Khurmatu was one of the areas disputed by Iraq and Kurdistan Region. Iraqi forces recaptured the area mid October as part of a government push to impose control over disputed territories in response to Kurdistan’s independence referendum held in September.