At least 12 Iraqi police officers have been killed in an attack the ISIL (ISIS) armed group is suspected of carrying out at a security checkpoint in the country’s north.

The twin attack on Sunday, in the al-Rashad region south of Kirkuk city, took place just after midnight, Al

Al Jazeera’s Mahmoud Abdelwahed, reporting from the capital Baghdad.

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