ANBAR, Iraq
At least 20 Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant militants were killed Friday in the Iraqi city of Ramadi in Anbar province, police said.
"The militants attacked a military base in Ramadi's Al-Falahat district," Anbar police chief Kazem Mohammad al-Fehdavi told Anadolu Agency. "The army responded and at least 20 ISIL militants were killed and dozens were wounded."
One soldier also died and another was injured during the counter attack, al-Fehdavi added.
ISIL attacked the district twice in the past three days, targeting an area that houses Iraq's second-largest military base.
Meanwhile, an explosion in Fallujah killed 20 civilians, including three children, and left 30 others injured, Dr. Ahmad Al-Shami, the state hospital's chief physician, told Anadolu Agency.
No official statement about the cause of the explosion has been released yet.
Iraq has been gripped by a security vacuum since June 2014, when ISIL stormed the northern province of Mosul and declared what it called a "caliphate" in Iraq and Syria.
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