Iraqi police said ISIL terrorists who tried to infiltrate areas around Ramadi, west of Baghdad on Wednesday were expelled.

“The security forces and the tribes retook control of the Al-Tash, Majr and Kilometer Seven districts,” provincial police chief Major General Hadi Razij Kassar told reporters.

All the Daesh members were killed,” he added, using an Arabic acronym for ISIL.

The operation was likely to have been an attempt to divert the security forces from an offensive they launched last week against the Takfiris’ last two footholds in Iraq, one of them a series of towns further up the Euphrates Valley from Ramadi.

A general who asked not to be identified told AFP government forces had killed 20 terrorists.

A military source in Ramadi hospital said two security personnel were killed and 18 civilians wounded.

“A curfew has been imposed on the city of Ramadi and its surroundings to prevent any security breaches,” the general said.

Source: AFP