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Seven members of ISIS killed in Northern Iraq

Published: 22 Nov 2017 - 10:00 am | Last Updated: 04 Nov 2021 - 09:30 am

QNA

Baghdad, Seven members of ISIS were killed in clashes with security forces southeast of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.

A security source said that elements of ISIS infiltrated into a village in southeast of Mosul and clashed with a security force.

As a result, seven ISIS members and a security element were killed.

In Mosul, security forces found a hideout and arrested an official of ISIS.

The security forces also arrested a person wearing an explosive belt and was trying to detonate himself at the scene of the car bombing in the district of Tuz Khurmatu south of Kirkuk, northern Iraq.

On Tuesday, ten people were killed and 75 others injured when a car exploded in a market in Tuz Khurmatu district in Kirkuk.