ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - At least one member of the Iraqi security forces was killed and four others were injured in a suspected Islamic State (ISIS) attack in Diyala province on Sunday night.
Telegram channels affiliated with the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) on Sunday said that ISIS militants had attacked Iraqi security forces in Diyala province, during which five members of the Iraqi security forces were injured.
The groups later reported the death of one of the injured and identified him as a commander in the forces.
ISIS seized control of swathes of land in Iraq 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. ISIS remnants are particularly active in parts of northern Iraq that are
disputed by Erbil and Baghdad, including in the provinces of Kirkuk, Diyala, and Salahaddin.
According to a report published last month by Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, there is little evidence of a significant ISIS resurgence in Iraq, with the militants increasingly isolated from the population.
“The Islamic State’s insurgency in Iraq underwent a steep decline over the last 20 months,” the global security think-tank stated. “A comprehensive analysis of attack metrics shows an insurgency that has deteriorated in both the quality of its operations and overall volume of attack activity, which has fallen to its lowest point since 2003.”
The terror group launched over 257 offensives, killing 387 and injuring 518 people, including Iraqi and Kurdish fighters over the past year
In its propaganda magazine on Thursday, ISIS claimed to have conducted 19 attacks in Iraq from January 27 to February 2, killing and injuring 30 people.
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