On Saturday, 11 people were killed in an ISIS group attack on a lookout point west of Baghdad manned by a state-sponsored tribal force, security sources and medics told AFP.
The attackers threw grenades and fired on the tribal Hashed forces stationed at Al-Radwaniyah, on the southern outskirts of the Iraqi capital, near the Baghdad airport.
A security source said: “ISIS attacked the monitoring tower, killing five members of the tribal Hashed and six local people who had come to help repel the attack.”
A medic confirmed the toll to AFP, and said eight wounded were transferred to a hospital in central Baghdad.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility from ISIS.
ISIS swept across a third of Iraq in 2014, seizing major cities across the north and west and reaching the suburbs of the capital Baghdad.
