Separate attacks in western Iraq leave 3 soldiers dead

By Suleiman al-Qubeisi

ANBAR, Iraq

Three soldiers were killed and another eight injured on Thursday in two separate attacks in Iraq’s western Anbar province, according to a military source.

"A suicide attacker drove his bomb-laden vehicle into an army checkpoint on the Fallujah-Amiriyat al-Semoud road south of Fallujah," Army Colonel Walid al-Deleimi told Anadolu Agency.

The explosion, al-Deleimi said, had resulted in the death of two soldiers and the injury of two others.

In a separate incident the same day, the officer reported, another soldier was killed and six others injured when their vehicle struck a roadside bomb on the Baiji-Haditha road some 160 kilometers west of Ramadi, Anbar’s regional capital.

While no group has claimed responsibility for Thursday’s deadly blasts, local authorities typically blame the Daesh terrorist group -- which overran much of Iraq in mid-2014 -- for such attacks.

The Iraqi army is currently engaged in a wide-ranging offensive aimed at dislodging Daesh terrorists from the northern city of Mosul.

By Suleiman al-Qubeisi

ANBAR, Iraq

Three soldiers were killed and another eight injured on Thursday in two separate attacks in Iraq’s western Anbar province, according to a military source.

"A suicide attacker drove his bomb-laden vehicle into an army checkpoint on the Fallujah-Amiriyat al-Semoud road south of Fallujah," Army Colonel Walid al-Deleimi told Anadolu Agency.

The explosion, al-Deleimi said, had resulted in the death of two soldiers and the injury of two others.

While no group has claimed responsibility for Thursday’s deadly blasts, local authorities typically blame the Daesh terrorist group -- which overran much of Iraq in mid-2014 -- for such attacks.

The Iraqi army is currently engaged in a wide-ranging offensive aimed at dislodging Daesh terrorists from the northern city of Mosul.