Iraq airstrikes| 27 Islamic State militants killed in Anbar 

Sakshi Chaturvedi
Published on: 15 May 2017 4:43 AM GMT
Iraq airstrikes| 27 Islamic State militants killed in Anbar 
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Iraq airstrikes| 27 Islamic State militants killed in Anbar 

Baghdad: At least 27 Islamic State militants were killed in airstrikes by international coalition against IS posts in the IS-held areas in Iraq's western province of Anbar on Sunday.

According to commander of the army's 7th division Nouman al-Zoubaie," The US-led coalition aircraft conducted an airstrike on an internet cafe used by IS militants as a headquarters in the town of al-Qaim near the border with Syria, leaving some 20 of them killed." He further said, "Another airstrike destroyed an IS post in the city of Aana killing six militants."

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In a separate incident, a booby-trapped car detonated at a busy intersection in Karrada district in central Baghdad, leaving a civilian killed and five others wounded, a local police source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

The airstrikes in western Iraq and Baghdad car bombing came as the Iraqi security forces, backed by anti-IS international coalition, are carrying out a major offensive to drive out IS militants from their major stronghold in the western side of Mosul in northern Iraq.

Sakshi Chaturvedi

Sakshi Chaturvedi

A journalist, presently working as a Sub-Editor at newstrack.com.

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