Iraqi police officer killed in ISIS terrorist attack

ISIS killed an Iraqi federal police officer at a checkpoint in Hawija, western Kirkuk late on Sunday, according to defense officials

Iran PressMiddle East: The ISIS terrorists on Sunday night carried out two simultaneous attacks on the Iraqi forces in the province of Kirkuk.

Iraqi reports said that the terrorists attacked the national forces in Jalawla town, south of Kirkuk, where clashes erupted between the two sides.

Meanwhile, the extremists targeted the Iraqi federal police forces in the village of al-Mansuriyah, south of Kirkuk.

The unnamed officer was killed by an ISIS sniper at a checkpoint in Mansourieh al-Jabal, 45 km west of Kirkuk city.“A member of the Iraqi federal police was killed after the snipers of ISIS terrorist gangs opened fire at one of the checkpoints belonging to the first regiment of the 12th brigade in the third division of the Federal Police in the Mansourieh al-Jabal region in the Hawija district of the Kirkuk province,” the Iraqi Security Media Cell said in a tweet.

This is the third deadly attack on Iraqi and Kurdish security forces in the disputed territories in the past week,

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