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5 Iraqi soldiers killed in ‘terror attack’: officials

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An army officer and four soldiers were killed in an attack on their post in Iraq’s central Salaheddin province on Monday, officials said.

The Iraqi Defense Ministry said an officer and several members of his regiment were killed “while preventing a terrorist attack.”

“Daesh terrorists launched an attack” on an army post in the village…

An army officer and four soldiers were killed in an attack on their post in Iraq’s central Salaheddin province on Monday, officials said.

The Iraqi Defense Ministry said an officer and several members of his regiment were killed “while preventing a terrorist attack.”

“Daesh terrorists launched an attack” on an army post in the village of Mtebija, “killing four soldiers and the regiment commander,” a security source said, using an alternative name for the Islamic State group.

The jihadist group overran large parts of Iraq and neighboring Syria in 2014, proclaimed its “caliphate” and initiated a reign of terror.

It was defeated in Iraq in 2017 by Iraqi forces backed by a U.S.-led military coalition and lost the last territory it held in Syria to U.S.-backed Kurdish forces in 2019.

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But their remnants continue to commit deadly hit-and-runs and ambushes, particularly from remote areas and desert hideouts.

In a report released in January, the United Nations said ISIS had “between 3,000 and 5,000 fighters” in Iraq and Syria.

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