9 Iraqi protection personnel, civiliaans’ dead in IS ambush: police
Jihadists start fired on rescue team of policeman after aroadside bomb reach a car, meanwhile state-aligned paramilitary forces were also attackedwhen they arrived at the scene, about 200 kilometres (120 miles) from thecapital.
Police and an area official said Islamic Express group northof Baghdad took existence of Six Iraqi secureness personnel and 3 civilians in theambush carried out on Saturday.
Four users of the Hashed al-Shaabi and two policemen diedalong with three civilians, Mohammed Zidane, the mayor of Zouiya, 50 kilometresfrom the city of Tikrit, told media. He updated a youthful civilian loss of life tollof two.
Among the assailants simply no casualties were reported, but Zidanesaid those killed among the Hashed, a coalition of predominantly Shiite forces, wereSunni tribesmen.
Immediately no one issued claim of responsibility, both themayor and police said the ambush was the task of Islamic State (IS) jihadists.
IS’ sleeper cells possess continued to wage hit-and-run attackson security forces and state infrastructure, particularly in desert areas wheretroops are stretched thin.
Most other countries’ contributing forces to the coalitionhave pulled away amid coronavirus pandemic hit.
However, the Iraqi government has “evidently indicated itwants to keep up its partnership with america and coalition forcesas we continue to finish the fight ISIS”, the US Middle East commandersaid Thursday, using another acronym for the jihadist group.
Standard Kenneth McKenzie estimates that's still includes a bodyof 10,000 supporters on the Iraq-Syria region and remains a genuine threat. “Theprogress of the Iraqi Reliability Forces has allowed america to lessen forceposture in Iraq,” he said. But US and coalition forces have to continue to be to helpprevent IS from reconstituting as a cohesive group able to plot major episodes,he added.
