Security Operations near Syria border; Nine Killed in Iraq

by | May 22, 2019 | 0 Comments

At least nine people were killed, and one more was wounded in recent violence:

In Shura, a bombing left one person dead.

A mortar attack on Canaan left one woman with injuries.

Seven militants were killed in an airstrike on their tunnel near Ayn al-Jahesh, close to the Syrian border.

In Umm Jerais, an ISIS commander was killed in an airstrike as he tried to cross over from Syria.

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

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