Islamic State exploits virus, political crisis to boost Iraq attacks
Displaced Iraqi people flee their homes due to fighting between Iraqi forces and Islamic State group in the old city area in western Mosul, Iraq, on July 5, 2017. A spike in attacks since April by remnants of the terrorist group has recalled memories of the IS' steady build-up across Iraq in 2014. – EPA pic, May 4, 2020.
ISLAMIC State group remnants in Iraq are taking advantage of a coronavirus lockdown, coalition troop withdrawals and simmering political disputes to ramp up deadly attacks, according to analysts and intelligence officials. The bloodiest so far was an ambush early Saturday that killed 10 Iraqi fighters north of Baghdad that observers say demonstrated a new escalation in the jihadist group’s tactics but one that could still be contained.
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