An Iraqi soldier was killed and another wounded in clashes that followed an attack by members of the so-called Islamic State on an army post in Salahuddin province on Saturday.
Islamic State sleeper cells have intensified terrorist activity in recent weeks, launching attacks on an almost daily basis especially in rural areas of provinces to the north of Baghdad and south of the Kurdistan Region.
The Iraqi military said in a statement that its forces had killed “two terrorists” during the confrontation, adding that “the clashes resulted in the death of one soldier and the wounding of another.”
It did not elaborate further but noted that the incident occurred in the Mutteibija area to the east of the city of Samarra in Salahuddin.