ISIS targets had been hit at checkpoints in the north, and an ISIS headquarters in Sinjar City had been destroyed.
It said the attackers, armed with rifles and rocket-propelled grenades, hit two checkpoints in the countryside and a military base inside the city, suggesting a level of coordination that had not been seen there before.
The premise is straightforward: two-person teams, using nothing but their feet and public transportation, try to beat out other competitors as they hit 12 checkpoints in a given city (and record their accomplishments with a digital camera) before crossing the finish line.
"I only hit two checkpoints," Brian Lorei told me afterwards.
They said one of the car bombs rammed into the house while another hit a checkpoint near the house — killing the rebels manning the checkpoint and also striking the passing school bus.
Another blast hit a checkpoint in Hama, claimed the Local Coordination Committees, and several explosions were reported in the capital, Damascus, including a rocket propelled grenade on the Central Bank, which the government blamed on an "armed terrorist group".
In Samarra, north of Baghdad, two car bombs hit a checkpoint guarded by members of a local Awakening group, part of the movement that is made up of former insurgents who were paid to switch sides under a program that was begun by the American military.
Munir Khan, another Khyber Agency local official, told VICE News that the bomber was riding an explosives-laden motorcycle and hit the checkpoint and the vehicle of the line officer who was on duty there.
The Pakistani news media reported that planes had dropped two bombs, one hitting a checkpoint and one damaging an abandoned religious school building in a place called Bormol.
The militants continued to unleash attacks, hitting a checkpoint belonging to government paramilitary forces from the Frontier Corps in northern Buner, and seizing several police stations across the region, including two in the upper reaches of Swat.
