05/12/2014
BAGHDAD – At least 20 Iraqi army soldiers died on the weekend when an armed group attacked a military barracks in northern Iraq, police told Efe on Sunday.
Fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant arrived in all-terrain vehicles at the barracks in the Ain al Yahsh zone, 60 kilometers (37 miles) south of the city of Mosul, which is some 400 kilometers (250 miles) north of Baghdad.
There, the attackers kidnapped the soldiers and then executed them, the sources said.
Iraqi forces sent reinforcements to the zone and began investigating the incident at the same time that they were transporting the dead troops’ bodies to a forensic medical center.
Terrorist attacks and violence against Shiites and members of the security forces have increased in Iraq, where just last month 750 people died, 610 of them civilians, according to the United Nations.
The Iraqi army is continuing its offensive begun in January against jihadist groups in the provinces where there is a Sunni majority, especially in Al Anbar in the west.
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BAGHDAD – At least 20 Iraqi army soldiers died on the weekend when an armed group attacked a military barracks in northern Iraq, police told Efe on Sunday.
Fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant arrived in all-terrain vehicles at the barracks in the Ain al Yahsh zone, 60 kilometers (37 miles) south of the city of Mosul, which is some 400 kilometers (250 miles) north of Baghdad.
There, the attackers kidnapped the soldiers and then executed them, the sources said.
Iraqi forces sent reinforcements to the zone and began investigating the incident at the same time that they were transporting the dead troops’ bodies to a forensic medical center.
Terrorist attacks and violence against Shiites and members of the security forces have increased in Iraq, where just last month 750 people died, 610 of them civilians, according to the United Nations.
The Iraqi army is continuing its offensive begun in January against jihadist groups in the provinces where there is a Sunni majority, especially in Al Anbar in the west.
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