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| Iraq |
| Police chief, son killed in Daesh-blamed attack in Iraq |
| 2017-12-25 |
| [AA.TR] A police chief and his son were killed in an armed attack blamed on ISIS in Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... Iraq, police said Sunday. Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Kirkuk Police Director Khattab Omar said Fadel es-Sabavi, the head of Sheria Police Station in al-Riyad neighborhood, and his son were attacked Sunday evening. Omar blamed ISIS Death Eaters for the killings, saying that the presence of the terrorist group continued despite liberation of the region by the Iraqi army. Upon the instruction of Iraq Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, federal forces launched military operations on Oct. 16 with a view to securing Iraq’s oil-rich Kirkuk province and other territories "disputed" between the KRG and Baghdad. The Peshmerga, which had held these territories since mid-2014, withdrew without incident, leaving them to Iraqi federal forces. |
| Posted by:Fred |