Dozens were killed in a spate of attacks across Iraq on Monday when militants of the so-called ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIL) terrorist group attacked a security headquarters in al-Rutba in western Iraq on the first day of Eid al-Adha, police sources said.

“Three policemen were killed in ensuing clashes with the attackers,” officer Ahmed al-Duleimi stated.

According to al-Duleimi, 11 ISIL militants, including three bombers, were killed by Iraqi forces during the attack.

In a similar development in northern Iraq, 16 more ISIL militants were reportedly killed and nine others injured in a U.S.-led airstrike on ISIL positions in Iraq’s second largest city of Mosul.

Iraqi forces are currently preparing to launch an offensive to recapture Mosul, which was overrun by the terrorist group in 2014.

Meanwhile, a bomb explosion killed a policeman and injured three others south of Baghdad. Two people were also killed and 11 others injured when a device exploded east of the Iraqi capital.

Iraqi authorities have deployed thousands of forces to secure the four-day festival of Eid al-Adha as the militants often use the occasion to carry out attacks.

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