At least three Iraqi soldiers were killed and two others were injured in an explosion of an improvised explosive device (IED) in Kirkuk, Alsumaria TV reported, citing a security source.
According to the source, ” an improvised explosive device (IED) exploded and targeted members of the army in Al-Zab town of Hawija district, which is a part of the Kirkuk Governorate, killing three soldiers and wounding two others.”
The Islamic State terrorist group claimed responsibility for terrorist attacks near Kirkuk and Albu Bali in Iraq last Sunday, which killed at least nine Iraqi policemen and eight civilians.
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kaboom!on their vehicle on Thursday morning, state media reported, with the country recently witnessing a spate of deadly terrorist attacks by the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
(ISIS).
"An bomb detonated on a Hummer of the 14th Division / Iraqi Army in Makhmour district ... killing two soldiers and wounding three others," state media cited a security source as saying, with the attack likely conducted by ISIS.
The attack marks the latest in a series of deadly ISIS attacks that have rocked the country recently. An ISIS attack on a village in western Diyala province on Monday led to the deaths of at least eight people with an additional three injured. Monday’s attack followed yet another deadly ISIS attack in Kirkuk province a day prior that killed at least seven members of the federal Iraqi police.
Suspected extremists in northern #Iraq detonated #bombs targeting military vehicles, killing two soldiers and wounding three, security sources say.https://t.co/qncvp6Om37
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