Baghdad: A string of attacks across Iraq killed 15 people on Saturday, including a senior military commander, a colonel and five soldiers who all died during a raid on an al-Qaida hideout, officials said.
Police officials said army Maj. Gen Mohammed al-Karawi, the colonel and the five troops were killed when they stormed the booby-trapped hideout in the area of Rutba, in Iraq's volatile Sunni western Anbar province.
Al-Karawi, who commanded the Iraqi army's 7th Division, was leading a search operation hunting for al-Qaida fighters in the area.
Four soldiers were wounded in the operation, the police said.
Also in western Iraq, gunmen in a speeding car opened fire at a police checkpoint in the city of Fallujah earlier on Saturday, killing four policemen.
