Officers: IS militants eliminate 4 Iraqi troopers in northwest
BAGHDAD — Islamic Condition team militants attacked an Iraqi army posture in the northwestern governorate of Kirkuk early Saturday killing 4 soldiers, safety sources and a neighborhood govt formal claimed.
IS fighters in the district of Dibis took the soldiers’ weapons and communications equipment and remaining the scene, security resources reported. They spoke on ailment of anonymity mainly because they had been not authorized to give statements to the media.
It was the 1st this kind of assault in approximately a yr. In January, Islamic Condition gunmen broke into a barracks in the mountainous al-Azim district outside the town of Baqouba, the place they killed a guard and shot dead 11 troopers as they slept.
Rakan Saeed al-Jiboury, the governor of Kirkuk, explained to The Connected Push that the assault “is a final result of negligence and deficiency of care by the stability forces.”
He added that the site of the attack is an place in which authority is divided among the Iraqi military and Kurdish peshmerga forces “so there is no coordination, and (IS) will take benefit of this.”
IS’s territorial management in Iraq and Syria was crushed by a a long time-long U.S.-backed campaign, but its fighters ongoing with sleeper cells that have killed scores of Iraqis and Syrians.
BAGHDAD — Islamic Condition team militants attacked an Iraqi army posture in the northwestern governorate of Kirkuk early Saturday killing 4 soldiers, safety sources and a neighborhood govt formal claimed.
IS fighters in the district of Dibis took the soldiers’ weapons and communications equipment and remaining the scene, security resources reported. They spoke on ailment of anonymity mainly because they had been not authorized to give statements to the media.
It was the 1st this kind of assault in approximately a yr. In January, Islamic Condition gunmen broke into a barracks in the mountainous al-Azim district outside the town of Baqouba, the place they killed a guard and shot dead 11 troopers as they slept.
Rakan Saeed al-Jiboury, the governor of Kirkuk, explained to The Connected Push that the assault “is a final result of negligence and deficiency of care by the stability forces.”
He added that the site of the attack is an place in which authority is divided among the Iraqi military and Kurdish peshmerga forces “so there is no coordination, and (IS) will take benefit of this.”
IS’s territorial management in Iraq and Syria was crushed by a a long time-long U.S.-backed campaign, but its fighters ongoing with sleeper cells that have killed scores of Iraqis and Syrians.