Wave of suspected ISIL attacks kill at least 60 in Iraq

At least 62 people have been killed and about 83 wounded in a wave of suspected Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) attacks on military posts and civilian neighbourhoods across Iraq, officials said. In the worst of Monday’s attacks, at least 26 troops were killed when a car bomb went off in the […]

At least 62 people have been killed and about 83 wounded in a wave of suspected Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) attacks on military posts and civilian neighbourhoods across Iraq, officials said.
In the worst of Monday’s attacks, at least 26 troops were killed when a car bomb went off in the city of al Baghdadi, which is west of the strategically vital Anbar province and near Ain al-Asad airbase.
A police source from Salahuddin province, north of Baghdad, said at least six pro-government militia fighters were killed and 18 others injured in two separate ISIL attacks there.
Thirteen other members of the security forces were killed in an attack on a military barracks east of Fallujah.