Members of the Daesh terrorist group killed 6 police officers in Iraq’s northern Kirkuk province, a police source said late Wednesday.
6 POLICE KILLED
Saad Harbiya, head of the Iraqi army’s Kirkuk Operations Command, told Anadolu Agency that terrorists had ambushed the officers in two separate attacks. Large-scale operations were launched in the region where the attacks were carried out, he added.
By late 2017, the Iraqi army with the help of the US-led military coalition had recovered most if not all lost territories from the terrorist group.
Although officials in Baghdad say Daesh’s presence in the country has been largely eradicated, the terrorist group has continued to stage sporadic attacks in Iraq’s Nineveh, Kirkuk, Diyala, Saladin and Anbar provinces.