A suicide car bomb attack on a wedding west of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, has killed at least 17 people and injured many more.
The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) on Tuesday said that 17.5 million U.S. dollars are urgently needed to meet the immediate needs of refugees fleeing Fallujah, a UN spokesman told reporters here.
The Islamic State (IS) militant group has received a heavy blow when the Iraqi forces reclaimed most of Fallujah, one of its last two strongholds in Iraq.
UN humanitarian chief Stephen O'Brien has expressed deep concern for the plight of civilians trapped in the besieged Iraqi city of Fallujah, where a major military operation against the Islamic State is taking place, a UN spokesman said here Thursday.
At least 12 militants from the Islamic State (IS) extremist group were killed in clashes with Iraqi security forces in Iraq's western province of Anbar on Sunday, while a U.S.-led coalition air strike destroyed a vehicle bomb factory, a provincial security source said.
At least 11 security members were killed and some 25 others wounded in a suicide car bomb attack in Iraq's central Babil province, a provincial security source said on Monday.
Al-Qaida-linked militants have left Fallujah in Iraq's western Anbar province and the city is fully in the hands of Sunni tribesmen now, a local councilman said on Monday.
France on Monday expressed concerns over the situation in Iraqi cities of Fallujah and Ramadi after a fresh wave of violent clashes overshadowed several Anbar's cities.
A total of 55 al-Qaida-linked militants were killed on Saturday in their clashes with security forces and local Sunni tribesmen in western Iraq, state-run al- Iraqiya television reported.
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