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Extremist group Islamic State (IS) on Thursday attacked Iraqi bases in two towns in western Iraq, leaving over 40 extremists and 17 security force personnel dead, medical and security sources said.
Four soldiers and seven policemen were killed when IS militants attacked police headquarters of the town of Heet, while another six security force members were killed in an attack on an army base in the town of Ramadi.
Heet, a town on the banks of the Euphrates and around 150 kilometers to the west of Baghdad, witnessed 25 militants attacking the police headquarters after midnight.
“They smashed the gates open with suicide car bombs, the 25 men tried to break into the HQ, sparking heavy clashes. The police killed 20 of them and the remaining five withdrew to the electricity building. They are still under siege, they have sniper rifles”, police colonel Jabbar al-Nimrawi said.
Nimrawi said that the building is now surrounded by army troops, policemen, counter-terrorism elite forces and anti-extremists Sunni tribal fighters.
According to Dr. Nael Ahmed from Heet hospital, seven policemen and four soldiers were killed in the attack on the police headquarters and in the ensuing clashes.
Ramadi, around 100 kilometers to the west of Baghdad and further down the Euphrates, saw a similar attack on the 8th Brigade headquarters on Wednesday.
“They attacked from three directions. They used suicide armored vehicles to break into the compound, then 13 fighters with suicide vests entered. We killed the last one at 5:00 am (0200 GMT) after fierce exchanges. We also killed seven who had come from another direction”, senior army officer Awad al-Dulaimi said.
Ahmed al-Ani, a doctor at Ramadi hospital, confirmed that three members of the Iraqi elite counter-terrorism force, three soldiers and a colonel, were killed in the attack.