[Rudaw] An Iraqi police officer from a federal police unit was killed and two civilians were maimed in western Kirkuk province on Monday, in what the Security Media Cell labeled a terror attack.
"Security forces repelled an attack by terrorist elements on the village of al-Majid in al-Riyadh district in Kirkuk province," the statement read. "The attack resulted in death of an officer in the Third Infantry Brigade of the Fifth Division of the Federal Police, and the wounding of two civilians."
The statement also revealed that the attack maimed a member of Hashd al-Ashairy, the Sunni unit of Iraq’s Shiite majority Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), known in Arabic as Hashd al-Shaabi.
The perpetrators have yet to be identified by Iraqi authorities, and no group has so far grabbed credit for the attack.
However,
alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk...
Islamic State
 ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS) forces of Evil are very active in the area, and have conducted hit-and-run operations against Iraqi security forces and civilians in Kirkuk and other areas of the disputed areas between Erbil and Baghdad.
There were more than 400 ISIS-claimed or suspected attacks in Iraq between April and June according to a Pentagon Inspector General report, up from the 250 attacks noted in the first three months of 2020.
Most frequently attacked area has been the eastern Iraqi province of Diyala, where 150 of the quarter's attacks were reported by Pentagon. Other attacks were reported in the provinces of Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
Anbar, Nineveh, and Salahaddin, all home to territories contested by Erbil and Baghdad.
This is the third Iraqi military official to be killed in less than a month.
The murderous Moslem group killed the commander of the 59th Brigade of the Iraqi army, Brigadier General Ali Hameed Ghaydan, on July 19 after forces of Evil attacked his convoy in the Ibn Sena region of al-Tarmia district, north of the capital city of Baghdad.
ISIS also grabbed credit for the killing of General Brigadier Ahmed al-Lami, commander of 7th division of the 29th brigade of the Iraqi army in an ambush in Anbar nine days later.
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