4 paramilitary personnel injured as Islamic State attack training facility, south of Tikrit
Salahuddin (IraqiNews.com) Four paramilitary personnel were wounded in an attack by Islamic State members against a training facility, south of Tikrit, a security source from Salahuddin province was quoted saying.
Speaking to AlSumaria News, the source said on Wednesday, “Islamic State members attacked, in the evening, a training facility of al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces), located in Balad town, south of Tikrit, leaving four personnel wounded.”
“The attack was launched from the western al-Hudeira region, located behind the facility, which is a liberated area,” the source, who asked to remain anonymous, added. “Military deployments arrived in the wake of the attack.”
Eight people killed, injured in Islamic State attack, northeast of Salahuddin
Salahuddin (IraqiNews.com) Eight people were killed and injured as Islamic State militants attacked a village, northeast of Salahuddin, a security source said on Thursday.“Islamic State members attacked Asdeira village, leaving four people killed and four others wounded,” the source told Baghdad Today website.
Bombing at funeral of Iraqi fighters kills 16 people
[PRESSTV] At least 16 people have bit the dust in a kaboom during a funeral procession for Iraqi fighters, who were killed by the ISIS Takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...
terrorist group, in the north-central province of Salahuddin.
Salaheddin Shaalan, mayor of Asdira village near the Iraqi town of Shirqat, told AFP that the bombing took place in the village on Thursday.
He noted that most of the 14 people maimed in the attack were in "critical condition."
Shirqat's leader Ali Dowdah said the funeral was held for three Iraqi fighters who had been killed on Wednesday.
Thursday's casualties, he said, came after bombs, which had been planted at the grave site by Takfiri holy warriors, went off.