BAGHDAD, Iraq, March 31 (NNN-NINA) – Two security members and a Daesh militant were killed Saturday, in two incidents in central and western Iraq.
In Iraq’s central province of Salahudin, Daesh militants attacked a joint patrol for federal police and paramilitary tribal fighters in Yathrib area, some 80 km north of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, leaving a police officer and a tribal fighter killed, and a policeman wounded, Col. Mohammed al-Bazi, from Salahudin’s provincial police, said.
Reinforcement troops arrived at the scene and launched a search campaign to track the attackers, al-Bazi said.
In Iraq’s western province of Anbar, an army brigade, backed by police commando regiment, carried out an operation against a group of Daesh militants in al-Hareijiah area, in the north-east of the provincial capital city of Ramadi, which is located some 110 km west of Baghdad, Col. Malik Obeid, leader of the commando regiment, said.
A fierce clash erupted between the two sides, killing a Daesh militant and capturing another, after wounding him, Obeid said.– NNN-NINA
