Daesh reportedly claims assassination of Iraq election candidate

  07 May 2018    Read: 1339
Daesh reportedly claims assassination of Iraq election candidate

The Daesh terrorist group has claimed they have conducted an assassination of one of the Iraqi election candidates, AFP reported. The country is to vote in national elections next weekend.

However, no further details: the name of the candidate or his condition are available at the moment.

The citizens of Iraq are set to vote for the next federal government on May 12, what will become their first elections since the rise of the Daesh terror group* and its defeat announced last year.

Major coalitions were put forward by the leading Shiite politicians of the country — Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and Vice-President Nuri al-Maliki. There are 6,686 candidates, 2,014 of them women, for 328 seats in the parliament.


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