BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: An Iraqi Army officer, with a lt-brigadier rank has been assassinated by unknown gunmen on Saturday, a police source said.

“A group of unknown armed men have assassinated Iraqi Army’s lt-Brigadier, Taher Ibrahim Ahmed, using guns fixed with silencer guns while driving his car in east Baghdad’s Palestine Street,” the police source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

SKH (PT)