#ISIS attack in northern #Iraq kills two army officers and wounds others. https://t.co/XymVJVi9DA
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) June 11, 2023
On Sunday, the Iraqi army announced the killing and wounding of a number of its soldiers, including two officers, in an attack launched by members of 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) in the northern Governorate of Kirkuk.
The Security Media Cell said in a statement that, late on Saturday evening, ISIS
The attack claimed the lives of two officers, one was a lieutenant colonel and the other was the first lieutenant, and wounding three soldiers.
The attack comes as the Iraqi forces regularly target suspected hideouts belonging to ISIS in the country’s remote areas, as the Iraqi army was launching strikes and qualitative operations that left heavy losses on ISIS krazed killers, the security statement added.
Following the incident, deputy commander of joint operations, Qais al-Muhammadawi, arrived in Kirkuk to check the incident and inspect the maimed.
A joint investigation committee also arrived to find out the circumstances of the attack, and to find out its causes," according to the security statement.