Officials: IS militants kill 4 Iraqi soldiers in northwest

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA
Associated Press

BAGHDAD (AP) — Security sources and a local government official say Islamic State group militants attacked an Iraqi army position in the northwestern governorate of Kirkuk killing four soldiers. IS fighters early Saturday took the soldiers’ weapons and communications gear and left the scene, security sources said. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to give statements to the media. It was the first such attack in nearly a year. In January, Islamic State gunmen broke into a barracks in the mountainous al-Azim district where they killed a guard and shot dead 11 soldiers as they slept.