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At least two people were killed and 10 others injured in a twin bomb attack in northern Iraq on Saturday, according to a local military officer.
An explosive device exploded in the town of Sanjej, southeast of Mosul, killing two – a farmer and a tribal fighter, Colonel Ahmed al-Jabouri told Anadolu Agency.
Another device went off as local residents and tribal fighters gathered to help the victims, injuring ten people, he said.
No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack.
Al-Jabouri said Iraqi police have issued arrest warrants for four suspects, including suspected Daesh sympathizers.
Last December, officials in Baghdad declared that Daesh's military presence in Iraq had been all but dismantled over operations backed by the U.S.-led International Alliance. However, from time to time, Iraqi officials announce operations against Daesh-affiliated "sleeper cells" in certain parts of the country.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said on Saturday they had killed ten militants overnight in a security operation conducted in the northwest of the country near the border with Iraq, the official news agency IRNA reported."A well-equipped terrorist group ... intending to infiltrate the country from the border area of Oshnavieh to foment insecurity and carry out acts of sabotage was ambushed and at least 10 terrorists were killed in a heavy clash," the Revolutionary Guards said in a statement carried by IRNA.There has been sporadic fighting with Iranian terrorist groups based in Iraq as well as Daesh terrorists near Iran’s porous border with Iraq.In July, there were at least two clashes in the mountainous border area, in which at least 10 Guards and three militants were killed.In 2017, Daesh terrorists carried out coordinated attacks at the parliament building in Tehran and the mausoleum of Iranian revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini south of the capital, killing 18 people.
Iran Guards say they killed 10 terrorists near Iraq border