IS jihadist attack kills 13 Iraqi police: Security, medics
IS jihadists
ThirteenIraqipolicemen were killed in an Islamic State groupattackagainst a checkpoint in the country's north early Sunday,securityand medical sources said.
Theattack, in the region of Al-Rashad around 65 kilometres (40 miles) south of Kirkuk city, took place just after midnight, a seniorIraqipoliceofficer told AFP.
"Members of the Islamic State organisation targeted a federalpolicecheckpoint," said the officer, who did not want to be named.
"Thirteen were killed and three wounded" among thesecurityforces, the officer added.
A medical source based in Kirkuk confirmed the toll.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
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IS seized swathes of Iraq in a lightning offensive in 2014, before being beaten back by a counter-insurgency campaign supported by a US-led military coalition.
TheIraqigovernment declared the Sunni extremists defeated in late 2017, but they retain sleeper cells which continue to hitsecurityforces with asymmetric attacks.
Jihadistcells regularly target theIraqiarmy andpolicein northern Iraq, but thisattackwas one of the most deadly this year.
A July 19 bombing claimed by IS officially killed 30 people in the Al-Woheilat market in Sadr City, a Shiite suburb of Baghdad.
International coalition troops in Iraq currently number around 3,500, of which 2,500 are US troops.
But Washington has been drawing down its military presence amid attacks on facilities it uses by Iran-aligned armed groups and has said that from next year the role of US troops will be limited to training and advising theirIraqicounterparts.
Last Sunday, French President Emmanuel Macron visitedIraqiKurdistan and expressed concern about an IS "resurgence" in both Iraq and Syria.
He also said that French soldiers deployed in Iraq as part of the international coalition will remain in the country "no matter what choices the Americans make".