Sudad al-Duri, Iraq

Militants from the Islamic State group killed two Iraqi television journalists in the village of Imam Gharbi, south of Mosul. Harb Hazaa al-Dulaimi, a correspondent for the Hona Salaheddin channel, and cameraman Sudad al-Duri were accompanying a police counterattack on Islamic State group militants who had infiltrated the village, seizing territory and kidnapping civilians, when they were surrounded by militants and killed.

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