BAGHDAD — Two Iraqi soldiers were killed Tuesday when a
suicide bomber blew himself up during an army raid Daesh militants north of
Baghdad, security sources said.
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A trapped militant
“detonated his explosives belt, killing a major and another soldier, also wounding
three others”, an interior ministry source told AFP, asking not to be named.
A second terrorist
was killed when he also tried to set off a suicide bomb in the army operation
in the rural area of Tarmiya, the source said.
Daesh overran
large swathes of Iraq and neighboring Syria in 2014, declaring a “caliphate”,
before Baghdad declared victory in late 2017 after a grinding campaign.
But a low-level
terrorist insurgency has persisted, particularly in rural areas north of
Baghdad around the city of Kirkuk and in the eastern provinces of Diyala and
Salaheddin.
On Tuesday, Iraqi
military command spokesman Yahya Rassoul said “43 Islamic State elements” had
been killed in a recent operation in the northern province of Nineveh, of which
the former Daesh bastion Mosul is the capital.
According to a UN
report last year, some 10,000 Daesh fighters remain active in Iraq and Syria.
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