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Army says foiled IS attack in western Anbar, killed 7 militants

 Army says foiled IS attack in western Anbar, killed 7 militants

Islamic State’s members.

Islamic State’s members.
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi army forces held off an attack by Islamic State militants on Monday at western Anbar, an army commander said in statements.

Brig. Gen. Nawman al-Zawbai, commander of the army’s 7th division, said the forces, backed by tribal troops, foiled an attack by IS on Kabisa, a region that have been under government and tribal troops control since it was released from the extremist group in early 2016. He said the forces killed seven of the attackers and wounded four others.

Anbar’s western regions still host some Islamic State strongholds that sustain occasional bombardments by Iraqi and U.S.-led coalition fighter jets. There has not been an officially-declared military campaign to free those regions, but the province’s military command launched a brief assault early January that managed to recapture some western villages before stopping again. It is believed that the Iraqi government will not aim at western Anbar before its forces are done with retaking Mosul, Islamic State’s biggest bastion in Iraq where security forces have been battling the group since mid October.

Very recent airstrikes pounded the location of meetings believed to have been chaired by IS supreme commander, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, whose survival remains a matter of question.

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