ISIS kills 16 Iraqi border guards near Syria

At least 16 Iraqi border guards were killed Monday in a dawn assault by Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants at their post close to the Syrian frontier, provincial and security officials said.

 

“Sixteen border guards, including a captain, were killed and four wounded in an attack targeting their headquarters in Al-Walid, near the Syrian border,” Faleh al-Issawi, deputy head of Anbar provincial council, said quoted by Agence France-Presse.

ISIS kills 16 Iraqi border guards near Syria