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55 al-Qaida militants killed in western Iraq: TV
BAGHDAD, Jan. 4 (Xinhua) -- 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.
Iraqi security forces backed by tribesmen killed 25 militants of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, commonly known as al-Qaida in Iraq, in the area of Alibovraj, north of Ramadi, Anbar's provincial capital city, the television said.
About 30 other al-Qaida militants were killed in an attack carried out by the Iraqi Air Force on the outskirts of the city of Fallujah in Anbar, some 50 km west of Baghdad,...