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Xinhua
March 27, 2018
During the past few months, dozens of IS militants fled their former urban strongholds in Mosul, Salahudin province and Hawijah area in the west of Kirkuk after the Iraqi forces cleared these areas during major anti-IS offensives. However, remnants of IS militants resorted to hideouts in rugged areas near theÃâà...
Xinhua
March 27, 2018
BAQUBA, Iraq, March 27 (Xinhua) -- Three people, including two senior local officials, were shot dead in overnight attacks by gunmen in two villages in Iraq's eastern province of Diyala, a local official said Tuesday. Unidentified gunmen broke into the house of the administrative chief of a village near theÃâà...
Xinhua
March 21, 2018
TIKRIT, Iraq, March 21 (Xinhua) -- Six people were killed and 13 injured by the extremist Islamic State (IS) militants who opened fire on civilians on a main road near Iraqi ethnically mixed town of Tuz-Khurmato in Iraq's central province of Salahudin, a provincial security source said on Wednesday.
Xinhua
March 15, 2018
TIKRIT, Iraq, March 15 (Xinhua) -- Iraqi security forces on Wednesday killed at least seven Islamic State (IS) militants in clashes at a village near the city of Shirqat in Iraq's central province of Salahudin, a provincial security source said. The clashes erupted at dawn when about 10 IS militants attacked aÃâà...
Xinhua
March 13, 2018
BAGHDAD, March 13 (Xinhua) -- A senior officer from a force tasked with protecting Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi was shot dead on Tuesday in Iraq's central province of Salahudin, a provincial security source said. Brig. Gen. Sharif Ismail, commander of a Baghdad-based special brigade protectingÃâà...
Xinhua
March 12, 2018
During the past few months, dozens of IS militants fled their former urban strongholds in Mosul, Salahudin province and Hawijah area in the west of Kirkuk after the Iraqi forces cleared these areas during major anti-IS offensives. However, remnants of IS militants resorted to hideouts in rugged areas near theÃâà...
Xinhua
March 11, 2018
During the past few months, dozens of IS militants fled their former urban strongholds in Mosul, Salahudin province and Hawijah area in the west of Kirkuk after the Iraqi forces cleared these areas during major anti-IS offensives. However, remnants of IS militants resorted to hideouts in rugged areas near theÃâà...
Xinhua
March 4, 2018
Ahmed al-Jubouri from Hawijah police told Xinhua. The security forces surrounded the house and clashed with suspects holed up inside, leaving six of them killed, Jubouri said. During the past few months, dozens of IS militants fled their former bases in Salahudin Province and Hawijah in the west of KirkukÃâà...
Xinhua
December 31, 1999
TIKEIT, Iraq, March 26 (Xinhua) -- Two soldiers were killed and a third wounded Monday in a clash between the Iraqi army and insurgent militants, believed to be affiliated with Islamic State (IS) group, in the Iraqi province of Salahudin, a provincial police source said. The incident took place in the morningÃâà...
Xinhua
December 31, 1999
BAGHDAD, March 24 (Xinhua) -- Five paramilitary Hashd Shaabi fighters and four civilians were killed Saturday in two incidents in the Iraqi provinces of ... During the past few months, dozens of IS militants fled their former urban strongholds in Mosul, Salahudin province and Hawijah area in the west ofÃâà...
