Security forces repel IS suicide attacks in Iraq
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Security forces on Monday repelled suicide attacks by Islamic State (IS) militants in western and northern Iraq, security sources said.
In Anbar province, police repelled two suicide car bombers on police convoys west of the provincial capital city of Ramadi, which is located some 110 km west of Baghdad, a provincial security source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
Police opened fire on the attackers and detonated their explosive-laden vehicles, killing the two bombers aboard. Five policemen were killed and a number of others wounded by the huge blasts, the source said.
Meanwhile, army helicopter gunships bombarded a building said to be an IS hideout northeast of the town of al-Baghdadi, some 190 km northwest of Baghdad, destroying the building and killing an unspecified number of militants, the source added.
In addition, U.S.-led coalition aircraft carried out an airstrike on IS positions at an IS-held village northeast of al-Baghdadi, destroying the positions and five rocket launchers, the source said without giving details about human casualties.
Government troops and allied militias have been fighting for months to retake control of key cities and towns in Anbar, Iraq's largest province, from IS militants, who previously seized most of Anbar and tried to advance toward Baghdad.
In Iraq's northern province of Nineveh, Kurdish security forces, known as Peshmerga, repelled a pre-dawn attack of four suicide bombers wearing explosive vests, who managed to infiltrate the Kurdish military bases west of the town of Sinjar, about 100 km west of the provincial capital city of Mosul, a provincial security source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
The Kurdish troops killed the four suicide bombers after heavy clashes inside the military bases, the source said.
Mosul, some 400 km north of Baghdad, has been under IS control since June 2014, when Iraqi government forces fled, leaving behind their weapons and posts.
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