Two Iraqi Army Officers Killed After Explosive Device Left by ISIS Detonated
The blast hit a search patrol at an ISIS hideout after Iraqi warplanes targeted the bunker a day earlier, injuring two soldiers.
- On Wednesday, an explosive device planted by ISIS killed Iraqi Army Brigadier General Ahat Yasser Khudair Hussein and Warrant Officer Mutaz Shahid Abbas in Kirkuk's Wadi Zghaitun, around 80 kilometers south of the city.
- The officers were conducting search operations at a hideout that Iraqi Air Force F-16 fighter jets had targeted the previous day when an explosive device left behind by the group detonated.
- This incident marks the second attack on Iraqi security forces in Kirkuk this month, following an assault last week that killed one police officer and injured others southwest of the city.
- The blast also injured two other soldiers who were evacuated for medical treatment; Iraqi officials warned that militants retain sleeper cells capable of carrying out hit-and-run attacks despite ongoing counter-insurgency operations.
- Following the September 30 withdrawal of foreign forces from Iraq, officials cautioned that the resulting security vacuum could provide ISIS an opportunity to regain strength, despite the group's collapse in 2017.
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Roadside bomb kills Iraqi army brigadier, soldier near Kirkuk
Explosive device detonated while troops were inspecting airstrike site targeting ISIS cells in Zaghaitoun Valley
On Wednesday evening, a security source in Kirkuk reported an increase in the death toll of an explosive device on the Iraqi army in the governorate, while another reported that four civilians had been injured by an armed clash between two parties in the Dijil district. In Kirkuk, a security source of the Shafaq News Agency revealed the death of a soldier, Safa Shia, a member of Al-Far.
Baghdad - Arab Jerusalem: Kirkuk Governorate, the most prominent city in dispute between Baghdad and Erbil, witnessed a series of security operations, which resulted in the death of an officer and a soldier with an explosive device from the remnants of the organization of the Islamic State, as well as the destruction of the latter ' s additives on the outskirts of the city, amid directives issued by the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Force…
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