Israel claims responsibility for an attack on a convoy on the Iraqi-Syrian border

An officer and two soldiers were killed by an explosive device north of Baghdad

The attack took place in the Tarmiyah district, north of the Iraqi capital.

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An Iraqi officer and two soldiers were killed, and three others were wounded, yesterday, when an explosive device targeted their vehicle while it was crossing a road in an agricultural area north of Baghdad, according to an official statement and a security source.

The attack, which was not claimed, took place in the Tarmiyah area, a remote area about 30 kilometers north of the capital, and the Iraqi security forces are striving to secure it, as there are still ISIS cells in it.

According to a statement issued by the government's Security Media Cell, the explosion killed "the commander of the 1st Regiment of the 59th Infantry Brigade, and two other ranks, and the accident also injured an officer and two other ranks."

The statement added that a team of security officials arrived in Tarmiyah in order to "find out the causes and details of the explosion of an explosive device on a security force while carrying out a duty" in the area.

In Jerusalem, the Israeli Army Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Aviv Kochavi, announced yesterday the responsibility for an air strike that recently targeted a convoy that entered Syria from Iraq, and said that the target was a truck carrying weapons.

Kochavi did not mention the date of the incident, but said it happened "several weeks ago" and appeared to be referring to an attack on November 8 that Iraqi officials said at the time destroyed two fuel trucks.

Kochavi told a conference hosted by Reichsmann University that had it not been for Israeli intelligence, "we might not have known that among the 25 trucks (in the convoy) there was a truck carrying weapons, which is truck number eight."

"We had to send the pilots," he added.

And they had to know how to evade surface-to-air missiles,” referring to the fighters that were used in the mission.

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