Shafaq News/ Iraq's Security Media Cell (SMC) confirmed that a person wanted for ties to the assassination of the Intelligence department chief in the Somar Operations Command had blown himself when the security forces closed in to make an arrest in Dhi Qar earlier today, Saturday.

According to SMC, a joint force from the Special Forces, al-Shatra

Shafaq News/ Under torrential rain, demonstrators on Saturday organized several gatherings in Sinjar to protest the "armed manifestations" in the contested district for the second consecutive day.

A source told Shafaq News Agency a group of demonstrators named "the Independent young movement" blocked the road leading to Burk compound to demand

Shafaq News/ The Iraqi army's aircraft destroyed a vehicle carrying members of the ISIS extremist group in Nineveh, a press release by the Security Media Cell (SMC) revealed in a statement on Saturday.

SMC said that vehicle was spotted near a tunnel in the south of al-Hadar Island, Nineveh.

"Immediately, a formation of the army airforce heroes took

Shafaq News/ A person with links to the assassination of a senior military officer blew himself up on the way to the police station in al-Shatra district, northern Dhi Qar, after being apprehended, a source revealed on Saturday.

The source told Shafaq News Agency that the arrestee lodged a hand grenade toward the force that made the arrest,