IS Kills 14 Iraqi Soldiers in Car Bomb Attack

Islamic State militants detonated a car bomb and then opened fire on Iraqi troops in the western province of Anbar on Thursday, killing 14 soldiers, security sources said. Iraqi government forces and their Shi'ite militia allies are hoping to recapture Anbar's provincial capital Ramadi, which was seized by the ultra-hardline Sunni insurgents last month. The Islamic State group swept through northern Iraq last year and has since taken control of a third of the country, which is...

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