An army officer and four soldiers were killed in an attack on their post in Iraq’s central province of Salaheddin on Monday, officials said. Iraq’s ministry of defence said that an officer and several members of his regiment were killed “while thwarting a terrorist attack”. “Daesh terrorists launched an attack” on an army post in the village of Mtebija “killing four soldiers and the regiment commander,” said a security source, using an alternate name for the Islamic State group. The extremist group overran large swathes of Iraq and neighbouring Syria in 2014, proclaiming its “caliphate” and la…