Shafaq News/ On Monday, a joint force of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) and National Security forces foiled an ISIS attempt to target the Yathrib district of the Saladin governorate.

A PMF statement explained that the joint force seized two explosive belts the terrorists attempted to use against people in the Shehabi area, south of Samarra.

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Shafaq News/ At least four persons were injured in an explosion downtown the city of Kirkuk, a source reported on Sunday.

The source told Shafaq News Agency that the blast happened inside a police department near the graveyard of al-Musalla area.

Four persons have been reported injured, the source said.

Shafaq News/ Retired Major-General Abdul-Karim al-Sudani has been appointed as a security advisor for Iraq's new Prime Minister Mohammad Shiyaa al-Sudani, a source reported on Sunday.

Major-General al-Sudani served as a deputy for the senior secretary at the Interior Ministry in 2014 under Adnan al-Asadi. He retired later after his promotion.

Shafaq News / The Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned on Sunday the double bombings in the Somali capital Mogadishu.

A statement by the ministry said, “it expressed its fierce condemnation of the bombings which targeted headquarters of both ministries of education and higher education in Mogadishu, a terrorist act killed a number of people and w