Deaths Reported in Iraqi Army Raid
TEHRAN (Tasnim) - An Iraqi government raid on targets of armed groups in a town southwest of Baghdad has killed 17 people, including at least three civilians, according to medical and tribal sources.
Among the dead in Fadhiyya district, in the town of Jurf al-Sakhr, were two women and a child, Sheikh Mohammad al-Janabi, a tribal chief from the town, said on Monday.
"Bombardment targeted the Fadhiyya district at 1am," he said. The toll was confirmed by a medic in a nearby hospital, according to AFP.
At least 12 people were reported wounded in the violence in Jurf al-Sakhr, 60km from Baghdad.
Some of the injured were transferred to the Sunni fighters’ stronghold of Fallujah in the neighboring province of Anbar,
AFP reported suggesting that some of the casualties of the raid were self-declared jihadist fighters from the Islamic State group or one of its allied factions.
A lieutenant in the Iraqi army said "the Iraqi forces used a variety of weapons to target armed groups' bases in Jurf al-Sakhr overnight".
