The latter part of the reporting period saw the ISF and Kurdish security forces bear the brunt of numerous attacks that claimed the lives of at least 90 of their community.
Late on Sunday gunmen killed five members of the Kurdish security forces at a checkpoint in northern Iraq bringing the day's death toll from bombings and shootings to 14. The checkpoint attack took place in al-Zad, a town near the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk. In a separate attack gunmen also attacked a police checkpoint in the northern city of Mosul on Sunday, killing two people.
The most audacious and sophisticated attack took place early on Monday 22 July when a combined suicide bombing and ambush killed over 30 members of the Iraqi Army. The bomber drove a vehicle packed with explosives up to a military convoy in the eastern Kokchali district of Mosul, 390 km north of Baghdad, before blowing himself and his car up amidst the convoy, which was stationary at the time due to a purpose built roadblock. This initial action set the conditions for a devastating multi-weapons shoot that sought to kill whatever survivors there were and also to cut off advancing emergency services.
The area around Mosul continued to be the pivotal point through the day as insurgents sought to maximize on the success of this initial attack. A further attack took place in Shura, 50 km south of Mosul, Iraq's third largest city and capital of the Sunni-dominated Nineveh province, where al Qaeda has been regrouping. Around 1200GMT militants riding on pick-up trucks opened fire on a checkpoint in northern Iraq on Wednesday, killing nine policemen, ISF sources reported.
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