17 killed in clashes with IS militants and bomb attacks in Iraq

A total of 17 people were killed and 23 wounded on Monday in clashes with the Islamic State (IS) militants and bomb attacks across Iraq, security sources said.

In Iraq's northern central province of Salahudin, heavy clashes broke out between the Iraqi police and IS militants at the edges of the town of Dujail, leaving eight IS militants killed and 11 others injured, while two policemen were killed and five others injured, a provincial security source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

The policemen also seized a cache of weapons and ammunition of the IS militants, the source added.

In the eastern province of Diyala, Abu Adnan al-Jubouri, an IS media member responsible for posting IS news and execution footage on internet, was killed by an airstrike of an Iraqi warplane on his house at a village in north of the volatile town of Maqdadiyah.

Also in Diyala, three IS militants, a policeman and a Shiite militiaman were killed in separate clashes across the province, the source said.

Meanwhile, the security forces pounded five IS positions in the villages in north of Maqdadiyah, apparently, preparing for an offensive to clear the rural area from IS militants, the source added.

Elsewhere, a civilian was killed and seven others were wounded when a car bomb detonated in the town of Mahmoudiyah, some 30 km south of Baghdad, damaging the several nearby buildings and cars, an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. Endit