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On January 21, 2022, several
Islamic State gunmen raided an
Iraqi Army
base in rural al-Azim district,
Diyala Governorate.
[a]
[2] At least 11
Iraqi soldiers were killed in their sleep.
[2]
[3]
[4]
[5]
[6]
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The attacks began at around 3:00 AM when the gunmen entered the
barracks, proceeding to gun down sleeping soldiers before the
ISIL
terrorists left.
[8]
[9] Eleven people, ten soldiers and one lieutenant, Zargham Luay, were killed in total.
[10]
[11] Islamic State later claimed responsibility for the attack via
Telegram.
[12] The
Iraqi federal government immediately condemned the incident, launching a
retaliatory airstrike against ISIL targets south of
Hatra in response.
[2]
[13]
[11]
Barham Salih, former prime minister of the
Kurdistan Region, also condemned the ISIL terrorist attacks.
[14]
The massacre was condemned by the governments of
Iraqi Kurdistan,
Turkey, and the
United Arab Emirates.
[15]
[16]
[10]
Iraqi Kurdish president
Nechirvan Barzani held a telephone call with
Iraqi Prime Minister
Mustafa Al-Kadhimi in which he denounced the attack and extended empathy to the people of Iraq.
[17] On January 25, 2022, the
United Nations Security Council voted to condemn the killings. The UN-released document is available in three languages: English,
Arabic, and
Kurdish.
[18]
Notes
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