Terrorist attack on Iraq, I SIS kills 13 Iraqi police officers

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5 September 2021, 13:46(5 years ago)

Thirteen Iraqi police officers were killed in a group attack. SIS against a checkpoint in the country's north early Sunday, security and medicine sources said. According to foreign media, the attack, in the Al-Rashad region about 65 miles (40 km) south of the town of Kerkêkê, occurred shortly after midnight. “Organization members I SIS [...]

According to foreign media, the attack, in the Al-Rashad region about 65 miles (40 km) south of the town of Kerkêkê, occurred shortly after midnight. “Organization members I SIS targeted a federal police checkpoint,” said a senior Iraqi police officer.

“Thirteen were killed and three wounded between security forces”, the officer added.

The ISIS seized parts of Iraq in a lightning offensive in 2014, before being defeated by a campaign against the uprising supported by a US-led military coalition.

The Iraqi government declared the Sunniate extremists defeated at the end of 2017, but they hold sleeping cells that continue to strike security forces with asymmetrical attacks.

jihadist cells regularly target the Iraqi army and police in northern Iraq, but this attack was one of the deadliest this year. A July 19th bomb claimed by I The SIS officially killed 30 people on the Al-Hoheila market in Sadr City, a Shiite suburb of Baghdad.

The international coalition troops in Iraq currently number about 3,500, of which 2,500 are American troops.