Twenty-seven people were killed in a series of bombings in Baghdad. In one attack, a suicide bomber killed nine people at a checkpoint. The Islamic State reportedly overran Camp Speicher outside of Tikrit. The group claimed to have destroyed nine aircraft and killed two senior officers and scores of troops. The Islamic State expelled Christians […]
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Islamic State fighters overran a military outpost somewhere near the city of Haditha, one of the last areas in Anbar under Iraqi control.
The large military base was attacked two days after the retreat of the Iraqi military and allied militias following their failure to recapture Tikrit.
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