At around 10:00 pm, ISIS attacked the disputed territory of Diyala’s Gulala town, known as Jalawla in Arabic, killing at least two people, local security head Shamal Abdulrahman told Rudaw.
The death toll later climbed to six after the militants launched an assault on a family residence in the area, killing four of its members, Abdulrahman added. At least eight others, including two Iraqi soldiers, have been injured.
The terror group has not commented on the assault.
ISIS has exploited the heavy dust storm that has enveloped Iraq and the Kurdistan Region to launch attacks.
Shortly ahead of the offense in Diyala, ISIS militants shot dead six farmers in Kirkuk’s Taza district, the Iraqi Security Media Cell said.
However, the local administration head Hussein Adel told Rudaw that three policemen were also among those killed.
ISIS seized control of swathes of Iraqi land in 2014. The group was declared territorially defeated in 2017 but it continues to carry out bombings, hit-and-run attacks, and abductions across several provinces.
In its propaganda magazine on Thursday, ISIS claimed to have conducted 12 attacks in Iraq from May 11 to May 19, killing and injuring 26 people.
