{"id":58249,"date":"2022-12-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/2022\/12\/19\/iraq-12-iraqi-policemen-killed-in-attack-in-kirkuk\/"},"modified":"2022-12-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T00:00:00","slug":"iraq-12-iraqi-policemen-killed-in-attack-in-kirkuk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/2022\/12\/19\/iraq-12-iraqi-policemen-killed-in-attack-in-kirkuk\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq: 12 Iraqi policemen killed in attack in Kirkuk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAGHDAD (AA): Twelve Iraqi policemen were killed Sunday in Daesh\/ISIS attack in Kirkuk in northern Iraq, according to local media.<\/p>\n<p>An explosive device exploded at a federal police patrol before Daesh\/ISIS terrorists opened fire on the force, Baghdad Today website said, citing a local police source.<\/p>\n<p>Daesh\/ISIS claimed responsibility on its Telegram channel. m The statement said its attacked &ldquo;a police patrol&hellip; detonated an explosive device then attacked them with machine guns and hand grenades.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The bombing took place near the village of Safra, southwest of Kirkuk in the Kurdistan region.<\/p>\n<p>Iraqi Prime Minister Muhammad Shia al-Sudani immediately ordered an investigation into the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Daesh\/ISIS overran Iraq&rsquo;s Mosul, Salahuddin and Anbar provinces in 2014, as well as parts of Diyala and Kirkuk provinces, before these regions were gradually freed from the terror group.<\/p>\n<p>Iraqi authorities announced victory against Daesh\/ISIS on Dec. 9, 2017, yet the group still carries out sporadic attacks in the rural areas of these provinces.<\/p>\n<p>Writing by Ahmed Asmar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twelve Iraqi policemen were killed Sunday in Daesh\/ISIS attack in Kirkuk in northern Iraq, according to local media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":58724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[414],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-our-news-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}