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Iraq: Security forces kill 45 ISIL militants in Anbar

The death toll includes Abu Mohammad al-Adnani, ISIL’s spokesman for Anbar province, Iraqi army sources say

31.01.2015 - Update : 31.01.2015
Iraq: Security forces kill 45 ISIL militants in Anbar

ANBAR, Iraq

At least 45 ISIL militants were killed Saturday in the western Iraqi province of Anbar, according Iraqi army sources.

Five people were killed in the U.S-led international coalition’s airstrikes on ISIL base in Al-Qa’im town 350 km west of Ramadi city.

The death toll included Abu Mohammad al-Adnani, ISIL’s spokesman for Anbar province, Major Diyaa Kazem Dabbous told AA.

Also, the Iraqi security forces killed 40 ISIL militants Saturday, including two suicide attackers who were driving explosive-laden cars.

The clashes took place when the Iraqi security forces repelled ISIL militants’ attack on the highway connecting Fallujah and Ramadi cities, according General Major Kasem al-Mohammadi, Iraqi army forces’ chief of Anbar province.

The death toll could not be independently verified.

Iraqi government troops are fighting ISIL militants, backed by the U.S.-led coalition's airstrikes campaign that has been going on for five months.

Iraq has been gripped by a security vacuum since June 2014 when ISIL stormed the northern province of Mosul and declared what it calls a caliphate in Iraq and Syria.

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