Baghdad Bomb Blitz Feared as Next Stage of ISIS Offensive

By  Robert Windrem and Richard Engel

With ISIS forces nearing Baghdad's city limits, U.S. officials don't believe the relatively small, ill-equipped army of Islamic militants will be able to take the city by a frontal assault. Instead, they fear that ISIS will terrorize Baghdad by launching a wave of suicide bombings and possibly cutting off water and electricity to the city of 7.5 million.        

The strategy, according to the officials, appears aimed at demoralizing residents of the city and inciting a new wave of sectarian violence that could further undermine the ruling Shia-led Iraqi government.                                                             STORY

  NBC News

An infographic shows which cities are held by ISIS militants