a separate attack as a person threw a grenade at them in Baghdad. On the same day, 8 ISIS militants were arrested in three provinces. March 9, 2021 - Airstrikes destroyed a site containing 10 ISIS militants in Nineveh province in northern Iraq. Iraqi security forces also killed two ISIS militants. March 10, 2021 - British RAF jets conducted airstrikes on IS held caves west of Erbil, northern Iraq. Two caves were successfully destroyed. March 11, 2021 - One Iraqi soldier was killed after he was targeted by machine gun fire in the outskirts of Miqdadiya. March 11, 2021 - Two Iraqi soldiers were killed after an army outpost was attacked south of Daquq. March 12, 2021 - IS militants dressed in military uniforms massacred 7 members of the same family in the village of Albu Daur, south of Tikrit in Salah ad-Din province. March 13, 2021 - One Iraqi policeman was killed and another was wounded after an armed attack on a police post in the Riyad area, southwest of Kirkuk. On the same day, Iraqi army personnel attacked IS militants travelling over the Syrian-Iraqi border. The militants eventually fled to Syria after an exchange of fire that left one Iraqi soldier dead. March 14, 2021 - IS militants killed a Tribal PMF member and his daughter after they stormed their house in Tarimiya district, north of Baghdad. March 15, 2021 - One Iraqi soldier was killed and another was wounded after IS militants activated an IED targeting an Iraqi army foot patrol in the Al-Ghaith area. March 18, 2021 - ISIS ambushed a PMF convoy near the Samarra area. Six PMF fighters were killed in the exchange of fire. Another PMF fighter was also killed and two policemen were wounded by gunfire in a separate incident in the Rashad area, near Kirkuk. March 20, 2021 - Two Shi’ite civilians were abducted and executed by ISIS fighters in the Abarah area. March 22, 2021 - The coalition announces that it has conducted 133 airstrikes against ISIL over the past ten days in Iraq destroying 61 hideouts, 24 caves and killing dozens of ISIL militants with Iraqi forces leading the ground effort. March 24, 2021 - An Iraqi army camp was attacked by IS militants west of Tuz Khormato. The attack left 1 Iraqi soldier dead and 2 more wounded. March 26, 2021 - The Iraqi government announced that fortifications,