Iraqi authorities blamed Daesh (ISIS) for the terrorist attack on a military post. (Representative)
Baghdad:
An army officer and four soldiers were killed in an attack on their post in Iraq’s central Salaheddin province on Monday, officials said.
Iraq’s Defense Ministry said an officer and several members of his regiment were killed “while foiling a terrorist attack.”
“Daesh terrorists launched an attack” on a military post in the village of Mtebija “killing four soldiers and the regimental commander,” a security source said, using an alternative name for the Islamic State group.
The jihadist group invaded large areas of Iraq and neighboring Syria in 2014, proclaiming its “caliphate” and launching a reign of terror.
It was defeated in Iraq in 2017 by Iraqi forces supported by a US-led military coalition, and in 2019 it lost the last territory it held in Syria to US-backed Kurdish forces.
But its remnants continue to carry out deadly attacks and ambushes, especially in remote areas and desert hideouts.
In a report published in January, the United Nations stated that IS has “between 3,000 and 5,000 fighters” in Iraq and Syria.
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