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28 IS militants killed in airstrikes, clashes in western Iraq

Xinhua, May 25, 2015 Adjust font size:

A total of 28 Islamic State (IS) militants were killed Monday in the U.S.-led coalition airstrikes and clashes with the Iraqi security forces in the province of Anbar, a provincial security source said.

At least 20 IS militants were killed and dozens others wounded when the international coalition warplanes pounded a bomb-making factory in the IS-held provincial capital city of Ramadi, some 110 km west of Baghdad, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

Separately, heavy clashes erupted between IS militants and the Iraqi forces backed by allied militias, known as Hashd Shaabi, or Popular Mobilization, in east of the militant-seized town of Garma, some 50 km west of Baghdad, leaving five extremist militants killed, along with blowing up a booby-trapped shovel truck, the source said.

In addition, at least three IS militants were killed and five others wounded in artillery shelling by the Iraqi army on a youth center used as a base for the extremist militants in the central part of the IS-held city of Fallujah, the source added.

The IS group has seized most of Anbar province and tried to advance towards Baghdad during the past few months, but was repelled by the security forces and allied Shiite and Sunni militias, known as Hashd Shaabi, or Popular Mobilization.

The security situation in Iraq has drastically deteriorated since June 2014, when bloody clashes broke out between Iraqi security forces and IS. Endit