{"id":411084,"date":"2022-12-18T08:54:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-18T08:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=411084"},"modified":"2022-12-18T08:54:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T08:54:00","slug":"at-least-eight-police-killed-in-blast-near-iraqs-kirkuk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/at-least-eight-police-killed-in-blast-near-iraqs-kirkuk\/","title":{"rendered":"At least eight police killed in blast near Iraq\u2019s Kirkuk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SONNA &#8211; At least eight Iraqi federal police officers have been killed in a bomb blast near Iraq\u2019s north-central city of Kirkuk, security sources told Reuters news agency.<\/p>\n<p>The sources said those killed on Sunday were traveling in a convoy when the bomb struck.<\/p>\n<p>The blast took place near the village of Safra , which lies about 30 km (20 miles) southwest of Kirkuk. Two other officers were critically injured.<\/p>\n<p>No one has claimed responsibility for the attack, but ISIL (ISIS) militants are active in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Kirkuk, located 238 kilometers from Baghdad, was seized from Kurdish forces by Iraqi security forces in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The Kurdish Regional Government had taken control of the city after Iraqi forces fled amid the rise of ISIL (ISIS) in the country.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Source: AJ<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SONNA &#8211; At least eight Iraqi federal police officers have been killed in a bomb blast near Iraq\u2019s north-central city of Kirkuk, security sources told Reuters news agency. The sources said those killed on Sunday were traveling in a convoy when the bomb struck. The blast took place near the village of Safra , which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":411086,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-411084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":411087,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411084\/revisions\/411087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}