Anbar (Iraqinews.com) – Six Iraqi soldiers were wounded Sunday after a suicide bomber wearing an explosive belt blew himself up in Hit district, 70 km west of Ramadi, Anbar.

“The troops were combing a party headquarters that was hit by a bomb explosion Saturday, when the suicide bomber targeted them,” a security source told IKH News.

According to the source, the soldiers were transferred to Hit General Hospital for treatment.

Earlier in the day, a suicide bomber blew himself up at al-Hal (solution) party in Hit.

According to security reports, Saturday’s attack has left five people killed and seven others injured so far, including a parliamentary hopeful.

Violence in the country has surged further with the emergence of Islamic State extremist militants who proclaimed an “Islamic Caliphate” in Iraq and Syria in 2014.

The surge in violence between armed groups and government forces has resulted in over 3 million internally displaced persons across Iraq and left more than 11 million in need of humanitarian assistance, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

Iraq declared the collapse of Islamic State’s territorial influence in Iraq last November with the recapture of Rawa, a city on Anbar’s western borders with Syria, which was the group’s last bastion in Iraq.</s>Baku.16 March. REPORT. AZ / Iraqi Air Force killed more than 50 IG militants during the air strike in Anbar province in the central part of the country. Report informs referring to RIA Novosti, the airstrike was dealt to the north of the city of Ramadi, where insurgents gathered for a meeting. The exact number of killed militants was not disclosed.

According to the military commander of the Iraqi Army, foreign mercenaries, as well as several groups of commanders were among the liquidated militants.

Iraqi News publication informs citing a source in the Iraqi security forces reported that it was a meeting of IG snipers, which took place in a hospital, and air strikes delivered by an international coalition aircraft.</s>Anbar (Iraqinews.com) – Six Iraqi soldiers were wounded Sunday after a suicide bomber wearing an explosive belt blew himself up in Hit district, 70 km west of Ramadi, Anbar.

“The troops were combing a party headquarters that was hit by a bomb explosion Saturday, when the suicide bomber targeted them,” a security source told IKH News.

According to the source, the soldiers were transferred to Hit General Hospital for treatment.

Earlier in the day, a suicide bomber blew himself up at al-Hal (solution) party in Hit.

According to security reports, Saturday’s attack has left five people killed and seven others injured so far, including a parliamentary hopeful.

Violence in the country has surged further with the emergence of Islamic State extremist militants who proclaimed an “Islamic Caliphate” in Iraq and Syria in 2014.

The surge in violence between armed groups and government forces has resulted in over 3 million internally displaced persons across Iraq and left more than 11 million in need of humanitarian assistance, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

Iraq declared the collapse of Islamic State’s territorial influence in Iraq last November with the recapture of Rawa, a city on Anbar’s western borders with Syria, which was the group’s last bastion in Iraq.







</s>This is an article from the Associated Press

The U.S. military says five American troops have been killed in central Iraq.

The military said in a brief statement that the five were killed on Monday. It gave no additional details about where the incident occurred or how the five died. But Iraqi security officials say that it was a rocket attack.

Two Iraqi security officials say a barrage of at least three rockets hit an Iraqi base in eastern Baghdad today and killed the five Americans.

The Iraqi officials say the Americans were staying on the Iraqi base as advisers and the rockets hit near their living quarters. The Iraqi officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.

The deaths raise to 4,459 the number of American service members who have died in Iraq. That's according to an Associated Press count.</s>Baghdad (Iraqinews.com) – A parliamentary hopeful was injured in a suicide bomb attack that targeted the premises of al-Hal (solution) party in Hit district in Anbar on Saturday, a security source was quoted as saying.

“Parliamentary hopeful Zeinab Abdel Hamid was in a meeting of her party al-Hal when a suicide bomber blew himself up inside the party, leaving her and a number of her bodyguards injured,” the source told Baghdad Today.

“The explosion also left one person killed and four others injured,” according to the source, who pointed out that Abdel Hamid was immediately treated on site.

The source noted that the ambulances immediately rushed to the blast site and carried the dead body to the forensic medicine department and the injured to a nearby hospital for treatment.

According to casualty figures recorded by the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), a total of 104 Iraqi civilians and policemen were killed and another 177 injured in acts of terrorism, violence and armed conflict in Iraq in March.

In its monthly statement released last week, the UN agency said the number of civilians killed, excluding police, was 84, while 164 others were injured.

Baghdad was the worst affected Governorate, with 124 civilian casualties (33 killed, 91 injured), followed by Salahuddin with 12 killed and 26 injured, and Anbar with 11 killed and 22 injured.
A suicide bomber injures six Iraqi soldiers near Ramadi, Anbar. The soldiers were combing a building hit by a separate bombing yesterday that killed five and injured seven including a politician.