Six Iraqi police officers were killed and seven others were injured early Wednesday in a terrorist attack in a remote area north of Baghdad, according to a military source. 
 
"Between 10 and 15 Islamic State group fighters attacked this federal police forward position around 12:30 am (2130 GMT Tuesday). The attack lasted around an hour," the source said, asking not to be identified. 

The attackers struck near Al-Jillam, 140 kilometers (90 miles) north of Baghdad, where terrorists still operate.

ISIS in Iraq

ISIS was defeated in Iraq in 2017 following offensives by regular Iraqi forces aided by the Popular Mobilisation Units (PMU).

Despite Iraq declaring victory over ISIS militants in December 2017, the group's remnants continue to carry out sporadic attacks against security forces, particularly in the sparsely populated desert or mountain areas.

 
 The last major attack claimed by extremists came in July last year when they bombed a market in the Sadr City district of Baghdad. 
 
The US-led coalition allegedly formed to fight IS in Iraq but shifted to a training and advisory role. 

What did the US do in Iraq? 

Iraqi environmental pollution activist and researcher Dr. Souad Naji Al-Azzawi revealed some aspects of Iraq’s decade-long crisis of nuclear radioactive pollution, warning of the danger of ignoring the problem, which led to environmental and health problems that pose a grave threat to the health of the Iraqi people.

Al-Azzawi told Sputnik that during the Second Gulf War of 1991, around one million shells of different sizes that contained depleted uranium were used, which contaminated close to 1750 km2 of land west of Al-Basra Province in Iraq. Some consider that the combined destructive force of these shells was seven times that of the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima during WW2.

She also said that there is evidence of war crimes during the Second Gulf War, during which the shelling and starving of the Iraqi people did not cease, with some considering that this amounts to genocide.

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Moreover, US troops stationed overseas have long held the practice of using burn pits to get rid of their toxic waste. The items that went into the burn pits included batteries, medical waste, plastics, ammunition, even amputated body parts, rubber, and chemicals.

A Sputnik report went beyond the burn pits' effects on US troops and spoke with an Iraqi-American researcher who shared firsthand accounts of the health problems faced by Iraqis exposed to the pits.

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