Security source in the city of Mosul in northern Iraq said today that security forces injured the so-called "Sharia Judge" of DAASH organization, or the Islamic State of Syria and the Levant (ISSL), and killed four of his aides in the city of Mosul in Nineveh province.
The source said 'Mosul Free Revolutionaries' targeted the so-called Sharia Judge of DAASH gangs, named as Abu Hafsa in Al-Aeryj area, wounding him seriously and killing four of his aides.
Tribesmen in the northern city of Mosul on Friday launched an attack on a DAASH outpost in Imam Gharbi village, southern of Mosul city, killing two DAASH militants and burning their cars.
In another incident, three civilians were killed in separate armed attacks by unknown assailants in different neibhourhoods of Baghdad. Meanwhile five civilians were killed and wounded when an improvised explosive device went off in a commercial street in Al-Jihad district, in western Baghdad today.
In Latifiyah neighbourhood in southern Baghdad, three members of the Iraqi army were killed by an unidentified sniper, while eight civilians were killed or wounded in an improvised explosive device blast, northeast of Baghdad.
A interior ministry officer was also killed in an armed attack by unknown assailants on Al-Dora highway in southern Baghdad.