{"id":24382,"date":"2016-04-05T02:55:09","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T02:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/wave-of-suspected-isil-attacks-kill-at-least-60\/"},"modified":"2016-04-05T02:55:03","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T02:55:03","slug":"wave-of-suspected-isil-attacks-kill-at-least-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wave-of-suspected-isil-attacks-kill-at-least-60\/","title":{"rendered":"Wave of suspected ISIL attacks kill at least 60 in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"

{At least 62 killed and 83 wounded in string of car bombs and suicide attacks targeting the military and civilians.}<\/p>\n

At least 62 people have been killed and about 83 wounded in a wave of suspected Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) attacks on military posts and civilian neighbourhoods across Iraq, officials said.<\/p>\n

In the worst of Monday’s attacks, at least 26 troops were killed when a car bomb went off in the city of al Baghdadi, which is west of the strategically vital Anbar province and near Ain al-Asad airbase.<\/p>\n

A police source from Salahuddin province, north of Baghdad, told Al Jazeera that at least six pro-government militia fighters were killed and 18 others injured in two separate ISIL attacks there.<\/p>\n

Thirteen other members of the security forces were killed in an attack on a military barracks east of Fallujah.<\/p>\n

In a suicide blast that targeted the Iraqi prime minister’s convoy as it travelled through the Meshahda area of Baghdad, at least three pro-government militia fighters were killed and 10 wounded.<\/p>\n

Three people were killed and 12 wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a security checkpoint north of Baghdad. The incident happened near Al-Muthana bridge, which links the capital with northern towns and cities such as Samara and Tikrit.<\/p>\n

In the southern city of Nassiriyah, police sources said at least five civilians were killed and 23 wounded in a bombing at a local restaurant in Tel Al-Laham town.<\/p>\n

In the centre of Basra city, at least five civilians were killed and 11 wounded after a parked car exploded at an intersection.<\/p>\n

Two civilians were killed and seven injured when two mortar shells hit the residential area of Al-Nassar neighbourhood \u2013 part of Abu Ghraib town \u2013 west of Baghdad.<\/p>\n

The series of bombings came as Iraqi forces continued a campaign to wrest back control of parts of Anbar province and Mosul city – which was seized by ISIL in 2014.<\/p>\n

Iraq’s army said in a statement that its operations against ISIL in Mosul continued on Monday, having been on pause for several days.<\/p>\n

It also said that it was advancing towards the ISIL-held town of Makhmour, south of Mosul, as a US-led coalition backed it with air support.<\/p>\n

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