ISIS Attacks Against Security Personnel; Eight Killed in Iraq

by | Jan 27, 2019 | 0 Comments

At least eight people were killed, and 22 were wounded:

In Shirqat, a bomb targeting a bus killed two policemen and wounded eight more. A second bomb struck as first responders approached. Two more policemen died and four more were injured. 

A married couple was killed when militants in military uniforms stormed their Shura home.

In Waqf, gunmen killed a civilian. Mortars wounded three soldiers.

During an ISIS attack on the Bakhtyari checkpoint in Khanaqin, militants wounded five security personnel. A militant was killed and another was arrested.

A bomb in Tikrit wounded two people.

Margaret Griffis is a journalist from Miami Beach, Florida and has been covering Iraqi casualties for Antiwar.com since 2006.

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