The bomber killed the deputy head of the Anbar Operations Command, Staff Major General Abdulrahman Abu Raghif, and 10th Division commander Staff Brigadier General Safin Abdulmajid, spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Rasool told AFP.
A statement from the Joint Operations Command confirmed the deaths of the two officers along with an unspecified number of other "heroic martyrs".
Rasool said the attack took place in the Al-Jaraishi area north of Ramadi, a city the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) jihadist group seized in May after pro-government forces had held out against militants for more than a year.
ISIL launched a devastating offensive in June 2014 that overran around a third of the country, sweeping security forces aside.
Baghdad's forces have managed to regain significant territory in two provinces north of Baghdad, but much of western Iraq, including Anbar province, remains outside government control.
AFP
hurriyetdailynews.com
27/8/15
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A suicide bombing by so-called Islamic State militants the Iraqi city of Ramadi has killed two army commanders and three other people, officials say...
ReplyDeleteGen Abdel Rahman Abu Ragheef was deputy commander of operations in the strategically important province of Anbar, while Brig Safeen Abdel Majeed was a divisional commander.
Islamic State (IS) controls Ramadi, 100km (60 miles) west of Baghdad.
An Iraqi offensive to recapture the city has been making slow progress.
The bombing happened in the Jerayshi area.
The bomb went off as the army intercepted an explosives-laden vehicle which they believed was targeting them, Brig Gen Yahya Rasool told state TV.
At least 10 others were wounded in the blast, he said. IS said it had carried out the attack................BBC
L'Etat islamique assassine deux généraux en Irak et avance en Syrie ...
ReplyDeleteDeux généraux irakiens ont été tués dans un attentat suicide revendiqué par le groupe Etat islamique (EI) dans la province d'Al-Anbar, une place forte des djihadistes qui gagnent par ailleurs du terrain dans le nord de la Syrie.
Le général Abdelrahman Abou Raghif, numéro deux du commandement militaire dans cette vaste province de l'ouest de l'Irak, et le général de brigade Safin Abdoulmajid, commandant de la 10e division, sont morts lorsqu'un kamikaze a fait exploser sa voiture bourrée d'explosifs dans la banlieue d'Al-Jaraishi, au nord de la capitale provinciale Ramadi. D'après l'armée irakienne, plusieurs autres "martyrs héroïques" ont été tués dans l'attentat.
L'oeuvre de kamikaze
Dans un communiqué mis en ligne, l'EI, qui contrôle Ramadi et l'essentiel d'Al-Anbar, a assuré que cette attaque contre un quartier général de l'armée avait été perpétrée par quatre kamikazes..............rtbf.be
27/8/15