Barrage attacks jihadists in Iraq - 70 dead
Fighters organization Islamic State attacked Iraqi security forces in the western outskirts of Baghdad, in the biggest attack have waged near the capital for months, while two suicide bombings in a mainly Shiite district resulted in the deaths of 70 people.
Suicide bombers and gunmen who were riding in cars or pedestrians were launched the attack on Abu Ghraib dawn, taking up positions in a grain warehouse and a cemetery and killing at least 17 members of the security forces, officials said. The fighting still going on in the barn in the afternoon, said security officials.
Security officials blamed the attacks on the IR and a news agency that supports the organization said it launched "widespread attack" at Abu Ghraib, located 25 km from the center of Baghdad and near the international airport.
Iraqi forces supported by air strikes the coalition of which the United States has led recently repulsed the IR from western Anbar province and prepared for a recapture attack in Mosul, but militants are still able to hit Baghdad and other cities outside the main areas they have put under their control.
Later today, two suicide bombers who blew themselves up aboard a motorcycle in a crowded mobile phone market in the Shiite district of Sadr City, injuring more than 60 people in addition to the dead, said police and medical sources.
In a statement released online, the IR reported that the attack carried out two suicide bombers, killing and wounding "hundreds polytheists dismissive," as he calls the hardline Sunni organization of Shia Muslims.
At Abu Ghraib imposed curfew as an excerpt of the elite anti-terrorist Iraqi forces sent to recapture the barn and prevent the approach of fighters at the airport, said security officials.
Sources from the military and the police reported that fighters attacked from nearby, controlled by IR, Gary and Fallujah areas, leading Chamvi and vans which carried guns.
The Amaq news agency reported that Iraqi forces were forced to retreat from many locations, but Iraqi security forces said they repelled the militants from a police station and several military posts and entrenched themselves in the cemetery and in the barn part of which caught fire.
Helicopters of the Iraqi army began bombarding posts IR in the barn and in the cemetery, according to a military statement.
The spokesman of the Iraqi Interior Ministry, Brigadier Saad Ma an, said at least 20 militants have been killed so far in the government counterattack.
Fighters from Chasint Saab, a coalition consisting of Shiite militia which supports Iran were sent to Abu Ghraib in order to strengthen the regular government forces in the region, said al-Tzaouant Toulaimpaoui, local commander of Chasint.
The powerful Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr also called on fighters loyal to him to be on guard to protect Baghdad. Shiite militias such as "Peace Brigades" of Sadr halted the sweeping advance of IR in 2014 that threatened the Iraqi capital and the most sacred for Shia places of worship.
Fighters organization Islamic State attacked Iraqi security forces in the western outskirts of Baghdad, in the biggest attack have waged near the capital for months, while two suicide bombings in a mainly Shiite district resulted in the deaths of 70 people.
Suicide bombers and gunmen who were riding in cars or pedestrians were launched the attack on Abu Ghraib dawn, taking up positions in a grain warehouse and a cemetery and killing at least 17 members of the security forces, officials said. The fighting still going on in the barn in the afternoon, said security officials.
Security officials blamed the attacks on the IR and a news agency that supports the organization said it launched "widespread attack" at Abu Ghraib, located 25 km from the center of Baghdad and near the international airport.
Iraqi forces supported by air strikes the coalition of which the United States has led recently repulsed the IR from western Anbar province and prepared for a recapture attack in Mosul, but militants are still able to hit Baghdad and other cities outside the main areas they have put under their control.
Later today, two suicide bombers who blew themselves up aboard a motorcycle in a crowded mobile phone market in the Shiite district of Sadr City, injuring more than 60 people in addition to the dead, said police and medical sources.
In a statement released online, the IR reported that the attack carried out two suicide bombers, killing and wounding "hundreds polytheists dismissive," as he calls the hardline Sunni organization of Shia Muslims.
At Abu Ghraib imposed curfew as an excerpt of the elite anti-terrorist Iraqi forces sent to recapture the barn and prevent the approach of fighters at the airport, said security officials.
Sources from the military and the police reported that fighters attacked from nearby, controlled by IR, Gary and Fallujah areas, leading Chamvi and vans which carried guns.
The Amaq news agency reported that Iraqi forces were forced to retreat from many locations, but Iraqi security forces said they repelled the militants from a police station and several military posts and entrenched themselves in the cemetery and in the barn part of which caught fire.
Helicopters of the Iraqi army began bombarding posts IR in the barn and in the cemetery, according to a military statement.
The spokesman of the Iraqi Interior Ministry, Brigadier Saad Ma an, said at least 20 militants have been killed so far in the government counterattack.
Fighters from Chasint Saab, a coalition consisting of Shiite militia which supports Iran were sent to Abu Ghraib in order to strengthen the regular government forces in the region, said al-Tzaouant Toulaimpaoui, local commander of Chasint.
The powerful Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr also called on fighters loyal to him to be on guard to protect Baghdad. Shiite militias such as "Peace Brigades" of Sadr halted the sweeping advance of IR in 2014 that threatened the Iraqi capital and the most sacred for Shia places of worship.
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