ISIS's elements attack Iraqi forces in Salahuddin province

The elements ISIS launched, on Thursday evening, an attack on the villages of Turkmen in the district of Tuz Khurmato to the east of the city of Tikrit, while an Iraqi police source say that they found the bodies of children had been kidnapped recently in the city of Tikrit, Salahuddin province.

This comes as the Federal Police Forces (FPF) controlled the headquarters of the leadership of ISIS organization in the city of Mosul. FPF chief Major-General Raed Shaker Jawdat said that the fifth division of the federal police took control of the headquarters of the so-called Riyad al-Salihin Brigade, one of ISIS' factionsin the old city.

"The units found documents, explosives, various weapons and central communication equipment," Jawdat said. The spokesman for the northern axis of the Popular Mobilization, Ali al-Husseini,said, on Friday, that "The confrontations of our forces with ISIS's elements in the villages of Gardagli, Aboud and Al-Hafriyah, continued from Thursday night until dawn Friday.

He denied the nterruption of the international road between Kirkuk and Baghdad, adding that 10 of ISIS were killed and seven others injured, while seven civilians, a family of five members and two elements of their forces, were killed and six civilians others injured during the clashes.

Al-Husseini stressed that three members of the radical group attacked the village of Jardagli, Abud and Hafra, in the area of ​​Tamli Khurmato, using the weather conditions. Meanwhile, violent clashes broke out between the two sides, On Friday, leading to the withdrawal of the elements of the organization after the death of one of them.

Influential Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called upon the government on Friday to disband paramilitary forces fighting Islamic State militants on its side after the end of operations in Mosul.

 
Addressing supporters during a protest in Baghdad’s central Tahrir Square, Sadr called for disbanding al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Units), an alliance of Shia paramilitary groups formed in 2014 to combat IS, which also won government recognition in November as a national armed forces under the prime minister’s command. He said the law passed to recognize al-Hashd makes Iraq a country “under the rule of militias”.

In his speech, Sadr said he had received death threats from “many parties”, which he did not name, urging his supporters to keep their protests peaceful if he is assassinated. “I am not going to appease an occupier, a sectarian or a partisan,” he said.

Sadr also threatened that his followers would boycott the upcoming local elections, slated for September 2017 if the current formation of the electoral commission is maintained. The panel’s formation was the main trigger of earlier protests by Sadr’s supporters in February, which tuned violent leaving five dead.

According to military sources, the International Coalition’s fighter jets managed to kill five extremists and destroy a bombing wheel and a bulldozer, adding that they managed to destroy a number of weapons stores and laboratory to make the explosive devices.

In his hand, the Vice President and leader of State of Law Coalition, Nuri al-Maliki, warned, on Friday, from more blood in the case of continuing sectarian thought in Iraq.