Suicide bombers kill four at Iraq-Jordan border crossing
Suicide bombers kill four at Iraq-Jordan border crossing
At least eight people have also been wounded in the attack on checkpoints at the Turaibil crossing.
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Security has been beefed up on the Jordan-Iraq border [AFP/Archive]
Three suicide bombers attacked a border crossing between western Iraq and Jordan on Saturday, killing at least four Iraqi security personnel and wounding eight others, officials said.
The bombers detonated explosives-rigged vehicles, one of them a lorry, at three successive checkpoints at the Turaibil crossing, said Sabah Karhout, the head of the Anbar province council.
The deputy head of the crossing, Khaled Alwan, and army Colonel Jabr Khailan, both confirmed the attack, with Khailan saying the Islamic State group (IS, formerly known as Isis) was responsible.
Iraqi security forces control only pockets of territory in Anbar, a vast desert province that stretches from the borders of Syria, Jordan and Saudi Arabia to the western approaches to Baghdad.
Much of the province is held by IS, which spearheaded an offensive in June 2014 that overran swathes of territory north and west of the Iraqi capital.
Some areas have been out of government control for longer than that - anti-government fighters seized parts of Ramadi and all of Fallujah, to its east, in early 2014.
The bombers detonated explosives-rigged vehicles, one of them a lorry, at three successive checkpoints at the Turaibil crossing, said Sabah Karhout, the head of the Anbar province council.
The deputy head of the crossing, Khaled Alwan, and army Colonel Jabr Khailan, both confirmed the attack, with Khailan saying the Islamic State group (IS, formerly known as Isis) was responsible.
Iraqi security forces control only pockets of territory in Anbar, a vast desert province that stretches from the borders of Syria, Jordan and Saudi Arabia to the western approaches to Baghdad.
Much of the province is held by IS, which spearheaded an offensive in June 2014 that overran swathes of territory north and west of the Iraqi capital.
Some areas have been out of government control for longer than that - anti-government fighters seized parts of Ramadi and all of Fallujah, to its east, in early 2014.
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