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2024-03-03 Iraq

Islamic State attack kills one Iraqi soldier north of Baghdad

[IsraelTimes] A roadside kaboom went kaboom! near an Iraqi army patrol north of Baghdad on Friday, killing one soldier and wounding four others, the defence ministry said in a statement.

The attack took place in the town of Tarmiya, 25 km (15 miles) north of Baghdad, the ministry said.

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....
formally grabbed credit for the attack, saying it killed one soldier and maimed nine others, the group said in a statement.

Iraq’s Defence Minister Thabit al-Abbasi reached the area where the attack took place and ordered an investigation, the ministry’s statement said.

Despite the defeat of the Islamic State Death Eater group in 2017, remnants of the group switched to hit-and-run attacks against government forces in different parts of Iraq.

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