09 May 2016•Update: 09 May 2016
By Khedr Khalat
BAGHDAD
Iraqi army forces on Monday recaptured the northern village of Kabarouk from the Daesh terrorist group, an army officer told Anadolu Agency.
"Army troops backed by coalition warplanes have retaken the village," army lieutenant Abdel-Rahman al-Jabouri said.
He added that Iraqi forces -- with air support from a U.S.-led coalition -- had struck Daesh positions in Kabarouk on Sunday before launching an offensive aimed at retaking the village.
According to al-Jabouri, at least 18 Daesh militants were killed during the offensive, while five Iraqi soldiers were injured.
The Iraqi army, however, has yet to officially confirm the recapture of the village.
In a related development, three Shia militiamen were killed Monday in a twin bombing in southern Baghdad.
"Two blasts struck a convoy of the Hashd al-Shaabi militia in the capital’s Latifiya district," Noufal al-Zamli, an Interior Ministry official, told Anadolu Agency.
"Three militiamen were killed and 11 others injured," he said.
There has as yet been no claim of responsibility for Monday’s bomb attack in Baghdad.
Iraq has been dogged by rampant insecurity since 2014, when Daesh overran the northern city of Mosul and declared a self-styled "caliphate" in parts of Iraq and Syria.
