ISIL bombers attack military base, kill 3 Iraqi soldiers
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A file picture taken on November 11, 2014, shows Iraqi army soldiers standing before a conference on fighting the Daesh terrorist group attended by Iraq's tribal leaders and members of the government, at the al-Asad air base, in Iraq's Anbar province. (AF
A group of ISIL terrorists have launched an attack on a military base in the Western Iraqi Province of Anbar, leaving three soldiers dead.
"Four ... bombers this morning infiltrated the military base of al-Asad on its northern edge," Head of the al-Jazeera Operations Command Major General Ali Ibrahim Daboun said on Saturday.
Daboun further noted that the Iraqi security forces killed the attackers who "were of various nationalities," but he did not specify any casualties among army ranks.
According to Press TV, Al-Asad air base is one of Iraq’s largest military installations and is home to Iraqi federal forces and tribal fighters currently engaged in operations to liberate the nearby city of Hit from the control of ISIL terrorists, as well as to hundreds of foreign military advisers.
Meanwhile, a spokesman for the US-led coalition allegedly fighting ISIL in Iraq and Syria, Colonel Steve Warren, was quoted as saying that no foreign nationals were involved in the incident.
Another Iraqi security source, who asked not to be named, said that a bomber managed to detonate his explosive-laden vest and killed three Iraqi soldiers, while wounding four, noting that "one of the killed soldiers had the rank of major.”
However, the officer said the number of bombers who conducted the attack was higher than four.
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