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Daesh kills 17 Iraqi soldiers
Baghdad -- Daesh extremists unleashed a wave of suicide attacks targeting the Iraqi army in western Anbar province, killing at least 17 troops in a major blow to government efforts to dislodge the militants from the sprawling heartland, an Iraqi military spokesman said on Wednesday.Brig. Gen Saad Maan Ibrahim, the spokesman for the Joint Military Command, told on Wednesday that the attacks took place outside the Daesh-held city of Fallujah late the previous night. The militants struck near a water control station and a lock system on a canal between Lake Tharthar and the Euphrates River where army forces have been deployed for the Anbar offensive, he said. Ibrahim added that the Daesh extremists used a sandstorm that engulfed most of Iraq on Tuesday night to launch the deadly wave of bombings. He said it was not clear how many suicide attackers were involved in the bombings but they hit the military from multiple directions. Posted by: Steve White 2015-05-29 |
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