<span style="color: #222222;">In Iraq, terrorists from the Islamic State group killed 12 civilians and wounded at least six in two separate attacks.<br />''<br />''The security officials said, attacks occurred on Monday evening in Kirkuk and Diyala provinces, where farmers came under fire while harvesting their crops.<br />''<br />''The Iraqi Security Media Cell told, six civilians were killed in the attack in the village of Sami Asi, south of the city of Kirkuk. Earlier, IS launched an attack in Diyala's town of Gulala, killing six residents.<br />''<br />''The Sunni extremist group claimed responsibility for the Kirkuk attack, claiming it killed five Shiites in their agricultural fields in al-Rashad area in Kirkuk and set fire to five vehicles.<br />''<br />''IS overran large parts of Iraq and Syria in 2014 and declared a self-styled Islamic caliphate. The group was territorially defeated in 2017 after a years-long war spearheaded by local forces and a U.S.-led international coalition. However, it continues to carry out hit-and-run attacks through sleeper cells across both countries.</span><br />