{"id":12296,"date":"2016-09-24T10:22:30","date_gmt":"2016-09-24T10:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=12296"},"modified":"2016-09-24T10:23:24","modified_gmt":"2016-09-24T10:23:24","slug":"iraq-military-checkpoint-attack-kills-at-least-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/iraq-military-checkpoint-attack-kills-at-least-8.html","title":{"rendered":"Iraq military checkpoint attack kills at least 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 18pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Iraq military checkpoint attack kills at least 8<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>Iraq military checkpoint attack kills at least 8<\/strong> : Baghdad, Iraq (CNN)At least eight people were killed Saturday when militants attacked a police checkpoint in Iraq&#8217;s Tikrit, the Interior Ministry said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">&#8220;A terrorist driving a rigged explosive vehicle detonated the vehicle at the Al-Qaws checkpoint in Tikrit, killing eight people and injuring 13 others (according to) preliminary reports,&#8221; Interior Ministry spokesman Saad Maan said in the statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">A security source provided a higher death toll, saying at least 12 people were killed and 23 were injured when three suicide bombers detonated explosives on vehicles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">The city, which sits about 95 miles (150 kilometers) north of Baghdad, was taken back from ISIS last year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">The Iraqi military meanwhile is preparing to launch an offensive to take back the city of Mosul in the north as early as October, several US officials said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; 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