24 people killed in Iraq attacks

In Anbar province, two soldiers were killed and six wounded when fierce clashes erupted in Albu-Assaf area, just northwest of the provincial capital city of Ramadi, some 110 km west of Baghdad, a provincial police source said.

In another incident, gunmen attacked an army force in central Ramadi, leaving a soldier killed and two wounded, along with seizing a military armored vehicle, the source said.

In addition, air strikes and artillery shelling on the city of Fallujah, some 50 km west of Baghdad, and the nearby town of Saqlawiyah, killed 15 people and wounded five, the source said.

Iraq is currently witnessing some of its worst violence in recent years