ISIS attacks checkpoint at Iraq, Syria border
Islamic State militants attacked a checkpoint along the volatile Iraqi-Syria border on Monday, killing at least 15 Iraqi border policemen, officials said. The attack took place in the town of al-Walid on Iraq’s side of the border, according to a senior army official. At least five officers were also wounded in the assault. A government […]The New York Daily News reports:
Islamic State militants attacked a checkpoint along the volatile Iraqi-Syria border on Monday, killing at least 15 Iraqi border policemen, officials said. The attack took place in the town of al-Walid on Iraq’s side of the border, according to a senior army official. At least five officers were also wounded in the assault. A government official in Iraq’s Anbar provincial council confirmed the report but further details were not immediately available. Since its blitz earlier this year, the Islamic State group has controlled most of the border crossings between Iraq and Syria. The Sunni militant group has also overrun a large part of Iraq’s Anbar and Ninevah provinces and now controls about one-third of both Iraq and Syria.
