Shafaq News / The security media cell said, on Friday, that a brigade commander was killed in the Al-Tarmia district in Baghdad, while a security source reported that all entrances and exits of the district were closed after the attack.

"A terrorist act targeted a military vehicle in the Ibn Sina area in Al-Tarmia district, north of Baghdad, which resulted in the martyrdom of the brigade command of the 59^th brigade commander in the  Iraqi Army General Ali Ghaidan",  the cell said in a statement received to Shafaq News agency.

For his part, a source told Shafaq News agency that ISIS militants launched an attack on Ghaidan, which led to armed clashes between army forces and the organization gunmen.