{"id":12386,"date":"2018-08-22T11:26:39","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T11:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=12386"},"modified":"2018-08-22T11:26:39","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T11:26:39","slug":"suicide-attack-kills-six-sunni-fighters-in-northern-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=12386","title":{"rendered":"Suicide attack kills six Sunni fighters in northern Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1360261\/middle-east\" readability=\"48\">\n<p>\nTIKRIT, Iraq: A suicide attack on a former Iraqi lawmaker\u2019s house killed at least six tribal militiamen and wounded seven others in a northern Sunni Muslim village early on Wednesday, police said.<br \/>No group has claimed responsibility for the attack but Daesh militants operate in the area.<br \/>A militant wearing a suicide vest blew himself up just after midnight at Adnan Al-Ganam\u2019s house in the village of Asdira, Col. Khalil Al-Sahn, the police chief of surrounding Shirqat district, told Reuters.<br \/>Those killed were members of the Tribal Mobilization Forces, a network of Sunni militias that back the government in its fight against Daesh, he said.<br \/>The village is north of Tikrit, the capital of Iraq\u2019s Salahuddin province.<br \/>Daesh, which had seized control of much of northern Iraq in 2014, lost Shirqat to US-backed Iraqi security forces supported by Sunni tribal fighters in 2016.<br \/>A small number of militants are still operating in the area and are capable of launching sporadic attacks, security officials say.<br \/>Iraq declared victory over Daesh in December but security officials say the militants are likely to wage an insurgency after their self-proclaimed caliphate collapsed and they were dislodged from all the territory they held.<br \/>Its fighters have kept up a campaign of kidnap and killing, mainly in the provinces of Kirkuk, Diyala and Salahuddin.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TIKRIT, Iraq: A suicide attack on a former Iraqi lawmaker\u2019s house killed at least six tribal militiamen and wounded seven others in a northern Sunni Muslim village early on Wednesday, police said.No group has claimed responsibility for the attack but Daesh militants operate in the area.A militant wearing a suicide vest blew himself up just&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":12387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}