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Iraq
IED attack in Kirkuk leaves three Iraqi soldiers wounded
2026-08-12
[Rudaw] Iraq’s defense ministry announced on Tuesday that an improvised bomb (IED) struck an army vehicle in Kirkuk province, wounding three soldiers. The incident comes a day after the Iraqi air force targeted several suspected 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS) hideouts in the province.

"As a force from the 11th Division was heading to search and inspect the remnants of an Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
in the Wadi al-Shay area, an IED went kaboom! on a Humvee belonging to the aforementioned division during the search and clearance operation," the ministry said in a statement.

The three injured soldiers were "evacuated to a hospital to receive treatment, and their health condition is stable," added the ministry.
Related:
Kirkuk province: 2026-08-11 Iraqi airstrikes destroy eight ISIS hideouts in Kirkuk
Kirkuk province: 2026-07-07 Op to clear ISIS sleeper cells in Kirkuk
Kirkuk province: 2026-03-17 Eight militiamen were killed in an airstrike near the Iraqi-Syrian border
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