{"id":33703,"date":"2024-10-03T03:09:11","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T00:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=33703"},"modified":"2024-10-03T03:09:11","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T00:09:11","slug":"ambush-by-isis-kills-4-iraqi-soldiers-near-kirkuk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/03\/ambush-by-isis-kills-4-iraqi-soldiers-near-kirkuk\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambush by ISIS Kills 4 Iraqi Soldiers Near Kirkuk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Iraqi military statement confirmed that four soldiers were killed and three others injured on Wednesday in an ambush set by ISIS fighters against a military convoy near the oil-rich city of Kirkuk in northern Iraq, according to Reuters. The ambush occurred in a rural area southwest of Kirkuk, which remains a hotspot for extremist activity years after Iraq declared a final victory over the group in 2017. Following ISIS\u2019s defeat as a force capable of controlling vast territories, the group\u2019s remnants shifted to guerrilla-style hit-and-run attacks against government forces in various parts of Iraq. Military officials said security forces were heading to an area about 45 kilometers southwest of Kirkuk to arrest a suspected extremist when they came under sniper and machine-gun fire. ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack, stating on Telegram that it had ambushed the army patrol using automatic weapons and grenades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Iraqi military statement confirmed that four soldiers were killed and three others injured on Wednesday in an ambush set by ISIS fighters against a military convoy near the oil-rich city of Kirkuk in northern Iraq, according to Reuters. The ambush occurred in a rural area southwest of Kirkuk, which remains a hotspot for extremist &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33710,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33703\/revisions\/33710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}