Iraq authorities blamed Daesh (ISIS) for terrorist attack on military put up. (Representational)

Baghdad:

An military officer and four troopers were being killed in an attack on their submit in Iraq’s central province of Salaheddin on Monday, officials mentioned.

Iraq’s ministry of defence claimed that an officer and several members of his regiment have been killed “although thwarting a terrorist assault”.

“Daesh terrorists released an assault” on an military article in the village of Mtebija “killing four soldiers and the regiment commander,” said a protection supply, applying an alternate name for the Islamic Condition team.

The jihadist group overran huge swathes of Iraq and neighbouring Syria in 2014, proclaiming its “caliphate” and launching a reign of terror.

It was defeated in Iraq in 2017 by Iraqi forces backed by a US-led armed service coalition, and in 2019 missing the previous territory it held in Syria to US-backed Kurdish forces.

But its remnants go on to carry out deadly strike-and-run attacks and ambushes, significantly from remote places and desert hideouts.

In a report released in January, the United Nations reported IS has “involving 3,000 and 5,000 fighters” across Iraq and Syria.

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