Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) – Medical and police officials said that a roadside bomb killed two senior military officers and a soldier on Sunday after their vehicle was targeted near the town of Tuz Khurmatu in Salah Al-Din governorate.
The ISIS terrorist group claimed responsibility for the attack that left two others seriously injured, according to Reuters.
In a statement, the Iraqi Ministry of Defense expressed its sorrow for the two officers and the soldier who lost their lives while doing their duties and offered condolences to their families.
The Acting Speaker of the Iraqi Parliament, Mohsen Al-Mandalawi, condemned the terrorist attack in a statement and emphasized the necessity of filling security gaps in certain areas in order to preserve stability, the Iraqi News Agency (INA) reported.
Al-Mandalawi urged that the offenders be apprehended and prosecuted as soon as possible.
In 2014, the terrorist group ISIS took control of large areas in Iraq and Syria before being defeated in 2017.
More than five million Iraqis had to flee the governorates of Nineveh, Salah Al-Din, parts of Kirkuk, Diyala, and Anbar because of ISIS control over these areas in 2014.
Iraq announced in late 2017 the liberation of all its territories from the grip of ISIS, but the authorities are constantly launching security operations to pursue remnants of the terrorist group.
In October, nine of the terrorist group’s senior leaders were killed in an operation carried out by the Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS) and the Iraqi National Security Service (INSS), under the supervision of the Joint Operations Command.
The Iraqi Prime Minister, Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani, said that the operation targeted hideouts used by ISIS terrorists in the Hamrin Mountains.
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