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TWENTY Iraqi soldiers were killed late yesterday night when their barracks outside Mosul were attacked by insurgents suspected of being part of extremist group the Islamic State in Iraq and Sham (Isis).
The soldiers were in charge of protecting an oil pipeline that sends Iraqi crude oil to international markets and guarding a nearby main road.
Attacks on the pipeline are common around Mosul, 225 miles north-west of Baghdad.
Local police said that some of the dead had been shot at close range, with their hands tied behind their backs, while others had died resisting the attackers.
The assault mirrored a previous Isis raid last month, also in the Mosul area, in which a further 10 soldiers killed.
In further gun battles yesterday seven members of the US-aligned militia Sahwa were killed in Adeim, north of Baghdad, while three police and a Sahwa fighter were shot dead at a Mosul checkpoint.
