Iraqi intel service, tribal fighters kill Islamic State commanders
Iraqi national security forces working closely with local tribal fighters say they have managed to kill two key Islamic State figures involved in planning suicide attacks.
ERBIL, Iraq — A man driving a car loaded with explosives who was thought to have been about to attack a police station detonated himself in the regional capital of the Sunni-majority Anbar province, Ramadi, about 100 kilometers west of Baghdad, on Oct. 3.
As of publication, the Islamic State (IS) had not yet claimed responsibility for the attempted attack.
Later the same day, two soldiers were reportedly killed and two others were injured in a village in Diyala province north of Baghdad, leading to the major Kirkuk-Baghdad road being temporarily blocked and Iraqi airstrikes on an IS “hideout."
The Islamic State seems to be at least partially shifting its focus to Afghanistan, with more casualties caused by the local Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) branch there after the Taliban takeover of the country on Aug. 15 — but with ISKP still second to IS in Iraq in terms of the number of attacks in a single country in which the international terrorist group operates.
