ISIS militants killed 11 people including a woman on Tuesday in an attack on a village in Diyala province, east of Iraq, the countrys Joint Operations Command said in a statement. The attack that targeted "defenseless civilians" in the village of Al-Hawasha, near the town of Muqdadiya, injured others, it added. The attack left "11 dead and 13 wounded", a local security source said. Another said that civilians were among those killed by small arms fire in the village, home to many members of the security services. The area has been sealed off and reinforcements sent to hunt for the attackers, the first source said. Both sources said most of the villages inhabitants belong to the same Bani Tamim tribe as the Diyala provincial governor. ISIS surged to control large swathes of Iraq and Syria in 2014, but its "caliphate" later crumbled under successive attacks. Iraq declared it defeated in 2017 and the group was smashed in neighboring Syria in 2019. But the extremist threat remains and the group continues to carry out attacks. A UN report published early this year estimated that around 10,000 ISIS fighters remained active across Iraq and Syria.