ANBAR, Iraq
Iraq's checkpoints on the border with Saudi Arabia were not attacked by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Monday, according to an Iraqi border guards source.
The source, who spoke to The Anadolu Agency on condition of anonymity, also said that Iraqi forces were in full control of the security situation in the area.
Saudi Arabia's interior ministry had said that two of its guards were killed and a third was injured in an ambush in the early hours of Monday near the border with Iraq.
“There is no coordination between Iraqi border guards in Anbar and the Saudi border guards command," the source added. "We do not know how terrorist factions attacked the Saudi border.”
The incident came only hours after an Iraqi military official told The Anadolu Agency that Iraqi border guards managed to repel another attack by ISIL militants on a checkpoint near the Saudi border.
Saudi Arabia is one of the members of the U.S.-led international coalition that had carried more than 1,200 air strikes against ISIL in Iraq and Syria since August 2014, according to a joint task force leading the operations.
The alliance also includes France, Germany, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates and others.
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