55 feared dead as three blasts on Tuesday struck army convoys travelling in Anbar
province to take part in a planned offensive aimed at retaking the
provincial city of Ramadi from ISIL, Al Jazeera's Imran Khan, reporting
from Baghdad, said.
ISIL has routinely used car bomb attacks to a "devastating effect" against Iraqi forces, he added.
"Car bombs have proven to be a very big problem for the Iraqi
security forces," he said, noting that the tactic played a major part in
the capture of Ramadi.
However, Brigadier General Saad Maan Ibrahim, the spokesman for the
Joint Military Command, told The Associated Press that 17 troops were
killed in the attacks.
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