SULAIMANI (ESTA) — Four Iraqi soldiers were killed in an explosion in south of Kirkuk on Monday, state news agency INA reported.
An explosive device of Islamic State (ISIS) remnants hit a unit from the Iraqi military as it was conducting a search operation in south of Kirkuk, INA said.
“The bombing led to the martyrdom of four soldiers,” INA reported.
Earlier, Iraqi warplanes carried out four airstrikes against ISIS militants, killing four “terrorists”, according to a military spokesman.
On Saturday, three ISIS members including two leaders were killed in an airstrike carried out in retaliation for an Islamic State attack that killed 11 Iraqi soldiers in Diyala province, the Iraqi military said.
ISIS controlled roughly a third of Iraq between 2014 and 2017. Iraqi forces and Kurdish troops backed by U.S.-led Coalition forces as well as Iran-backed Shia militias defeated the militant group in 2017, but its members still roam areas of northern Iraq and northeastern Syria.
