#Iraq: Suspected ISIL attack kills at least 12 Iraqi police near Kirkuk

At least 12 Iraqi police officers have been killed in an attack the ISIL (ISIS) armed group is suspected of carrying out at a security checkpoint in the country’s north.

The twin attack on Sunday, in the al-Rashad region south of Kirkuk city, took place just after midnight,



Al Jazeera’s Mahmoud Abdelwahed, reporting from the capital Baghdad.



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