Major insurgent attacks Foreign interventions IS genocide of minorities IS war crimes Timeline On 4 April 2017, several Islamic State militants disguised as military personnel killed at least 35 people in Tikrit, 14 of which were members of security forces.
[1][2] The attack occurred late on the night of April 4, when 10 ISIL militants disguised in police uniform attacked a security checkpoint and stormed the house of a police colonel in Zuhour, a neighborhood in Tikrit.
The clashes resulted in the killing of at least five IS militants; three were shot dead, while two others detonated their explosive vests, according to a security source.
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