MOSUL, Iraq – The Iraqi army announced on Friday that they have successfully stopped an attack by the Islamic State in the northern Iraqi province of Nineveh and killed 27 jihadists in the process, a security official told EFE.
The spokesman of operations command for the liberation of Nineveh, Gen. Feras Sabry, said the terrorists attacked the vehicles of an Iraqi army brigade.
He said that security forces were able to stop the attack and killed 27 IS fighters, including two suicide bombers, adding that Iraqi forces and the U.S.-led international coalition bombed the terrorists who fled after the foiled attack, without giving further details.
Meanwhile, three Iraqi policemen were also killed and four wounded in an attack by a car bomb in Nineveh on Friday.
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