Six Iraqi soldiers were killed and four others injured in an overnight attack by Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq's eastern province of Diyala, a provincial police officer said on Monday, APA reports citing Xinhua.
The attack took place late on Sunday night when IS militants carried out an attack on army bases at a rural area near the town of al-Maqdadiyah, some 100 km northeast of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, sparking a fierce clash between the two sides.
The clash continued for several hours and only stopped after a reinforcement troops arrived at the scene, al-Saadi said without giving further details about whether the extremist attackers sustained any casualty.
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