Triple suicide bombing kills 18 soldiers in #Iraq
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Policemen and soldiers inspect damaged vehicles of security forces that were targeted by an attack, leaving two senior officers wounded on December 2, 2013 in Sulaimaniyah, Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region’s second-biggest city. (Photo: AFP - Shwan Mohammed)
At least 18 Iraqi military officers were killed on Saturday when three suicide bombers ambushed them in #anbar_province, military sources said. The commander of the army’s Seventh Division as well as the commander of its 28th Brigade and several other high-ranking officers were among those killed in the attack, the sources said. Another 32 soldiers were wounded. It was not immediately clear why so many senior officers were in an area controlled largely by militants linked to #al-Qaeda, but some sources (...)