BAGHDAD, July 29 (NNN-NINA) – Two Iraqi officers and a border guard were killed yesterday, in two separate attacks by the Daesh militants in western Iraq, the Iraqi military said.
In one incident, Brigadier General, Ahmed al-Lami, commander of the Army’s 29th Brigade of the 7th Infantry Division, was killed, while pursuing the Daesh militants in Heet area, some 160 km west of Baghdad, the media office of the Iraqi Joint Operations Command (JOC) said in a statement.
Al-Lami was leading a force in chasing the Daesh militants, who were on the run, after an attack on an army checkpoint, that killed an officer and wounded two soldiers in the Heet area, the JOC said.
In a separate incident, the Daesh militants opened fire on an Iraqi border guard patrol, near the Arar crossing point, on the Iraq-Saudi Arabia border, killing a border guard and wounding four others, before fleeing into the desert, a border guard officer said.– NNN-NINA
