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57 killed in Iraq clashes
The Islamic State group launched attacks on Iraqi bases in two western towns that left at least 17 members of the security forces and 40 jihadists dead, security and medical sources said on Thursday.
- UN accuses IS of gross abuses
- Atleast 10,000 Iraqis killed in IS offensive
Ramadi: The Islamic State group launched attacks on Iraqi bases in two western towns that left at least 17 members of the security forces and 40 jihadists dead, security and medical sources said on Thursday.
Seven policemen and four soldiers were killed when IS fighters attacked the police headquarters in the town of Heet, while at least six members of federal forces were killed in an assault on a major army base in Ramadi.
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In Heet, a town on the Euphrates about 150 kilometres (95 miles) west of Baghdad, 25 gunmen attacked the police headquarters shortly after midnight. "They smashed the gates open with suicide car bombs, the 25 men tried to break into the HQ, sparking heavy clashes," police colonel Jabbar al-Nimrawi told AFP. "The police killed 20 of them and the remaining five withdrew to the electricity building. They are still under siege, they have sniper rifles," he said.
Islamic State jihadists are inflicting staggering human rights violations in Iraq which could amount to war crimes, a top United Nations official said. "The array of violations and abuses perpetrated by ISIL and associated armed groups is staggering, and many of their acts may amount to war crimes or crimes against humanity," said UN human rights chief Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein.
IS fighters were at the gates of a key Kurdish town on the Syrian border with Turkey as its parliament prepared to vote on authorising military intervention against the jihadists.
Kurdish militiamen backed by US-led air strikes were locked in fierce fighting to prevent the besieged border town of Kobane from falling to IS group fighters.
"There are real fears that the IS may be able to advance into the town of Kobane itself very soon," the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights warned.
At least 9,347 Iraqi civilians have been killed and 17,386 others injured during the first nine months of this year in the offensive by the Islamic State (IS) terrorist organisation in Iraq, the UN announced on Thursday.
