Antisemitic TikTok user, Hamza Alam, was jailed for four years for encouraging terrorist attacks and spreading extremist views, according to the Crown Prosecution Service.
Allegedly taking shelter in the rural town, IS fighters emerged from hiding and attacked law enforcement, leading to the deadly clash, according to police.
Iraqi militias have been growing exponentially and currently pose the biggest threat to Iraq’s stability since they call the shots, and the Iraqi prime minister seems to serve at their pleasure.
The attack was thwarted in a joint operation between Interpol, the US FBI, the Spanish Civil Guard.
The defeat of ISIS took years. However, Iraq was able to mobilize against the extremists.
Lebanese media have said that the attacker wore a black vest painted with the letters “I” and “S” written in Arabic, indicating possible Islamic State affiliation.
The men allegedly planned to use automatic weapons to cause multiple fatalities to those in the Jewish community, the police and the military.
Iraq's defense ministry issued a statement mourning the loss of a colonel and "a number of heroic fighters of the regiment as a result of their response to a terrorist attack."
Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack in the provincial capital Faizabad, the group's Telegram channel said on Wednesday.
It was a year after the Uzbek government released official international notice on Jovokhir Attoev that the United States realized that he was wanted in Uzbekistan for alleged ISIS affiliation.