{"id":102346,"date":"2017-05-14T20:53:08","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T00:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=102346"},"modified":"2017-05-14T20:53:08","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T00:53:08","slug":"27-is-militants-killed-in-airstrikes-in-western-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/05\/14\/27-is-militants-killed-in-airstrikes-in-western-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"27 IS militants killed in airstrikes in western Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_102347\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-102347\" style=\"width: 254px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Iraq_-_Location_Map_2013_-_IRQ_-_UNOCHA.svg_.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-102347\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Iraq_-_Location_Map_2013_-_IRQ_-_UNOCHA.svg_.png\" alt=\"Another airstrike destroyed an IS post in the city of Aana, some 180 km northwest of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, killing six militants, Zoubaie said. (Photo: OCHA\/ Wikipedia)\" width=\"254\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Iraq_-_Location_Map_2013_-_IRQ_-_UNOCHA.svg_.png 254w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Iraq_-_Location_Map_2013_-_IRQ_-_UNOCHA.svg_-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 254px) 100vw, 254px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-102347\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Another airstrike destroyed an IS post in the city of Aana, some 180 km northwest of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, killing six militants, Zoubaie said. (Photo:<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/\"> OCHA\/ Wikipedia<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>BAGHDAD \u2013A total of 27 Islamic State (IS) militants were killed in airstrikes by international coalition against IS posts in IS-held areas in Iraq&#8217;s western province of Anbar on Sunday, an Iraqi army source said.<\/p>\n<p>According to intelligence reports, the U.S.-led coalition aircraft conducted an airstrike on an internet cafe used by IS militants as a headquarters in the town of al-Qaim near the border with Syria, leaving some 20 of them killed, Nouman al-Zoubaie, commander of the army&#8217;s 7th Division, told Xinhua.<\/p>\n<p>Another airstrike destroyed an IS post in the city of Aana, some 180 km northwest of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, killing six militants, Zoubaie said.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, an international airstrike bombed a booby-trapped vehicle and killed its driver, he added.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate incident, a booby-trapped car detonated at a busy intersection in Karrada district in central Baghdad, leaving a civilian killed and five others wounded, a local police source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n<p>The airstrikes in western Iraq and Baghdad car bombing came as the Iraqi security forces, backed by anti-IS international coalition, are carrying out a major offensive to drive out IS militants from their major stronghold in the western side of Mosul in northern Iraq.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAGHDAD \u2013A total of 27 Islamic State (IS) militants were killed in airstrikes by international coalition against IS posts in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":102347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[2510,5203,19059],"class_list":["post-102346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","tag-airstrike","tag-beleaguered-iraq","tag-militant","mauthors-xinhua-via-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}