KIRKUK, Iraq — Three
Iraqi soldiers were killed Monday
morning in bomb blast targeting their patrol on a road in Kirkuk city, north of
Baghdad, a military source said.
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A fourth soldier was injured in the same attack, which was
not immediately claimed.
It follows an attack on an army base on Friday in which 11
soldiers were killed in the eastern Iraqi province of Diyala, that was later
claimed by the terrorist group Daesh.
The Friday attack coincided with a sophisticated Daesh
assault on a Kurdish-run prison in Hasakeh in northern Syria aimed to free
fellow jihadists.
Clashes continued for a fifth day Monday in Hasakeh, with
reports of over 150 people having been killed.
Daesh rose to power in 2014 after claiming large swathes of
Iraq and Syria and declaring itself a so-called "caliphate".
Backed by the US-led coalition, Iraq declared its
"victory" over the group in late 2017, but has since continued to
grapple with a low-level insurgency, flaring up at various points.
Daesh extremists in Iraq have been concentrated in the
Kirkuk region and the provinces of Salaheddin and Diyala.
They have also targeted fighters from the autonomous
Kurdistan region in Iraq's north.
On December 3, at least nine Kurdish fighters and three
brothers were killed in northern Iraq attacks blamed on the terror group.
Daesh also claimed a bombing against a market in Sadr city,
a Shiite suburb of the capital Baghdad, that killed dozens of people in July
last year.
A
UN report last year estimated that around 10,000 Daesh
fighters remained active across Iraq and Syria, many of them in
Kurdish-controlled areas.
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