Baku-APA. At least 10 al-Qaida militants were killed Tuesday in clashes between Sunni tribes and al-Qaida fighters in two major cities of Iraq's western province of Anbar, APA reports quoting Xinhua.
In Ramadi, Anbar's provincial capital city, dozens of tribesmen backed by local police fought fierce clashes with al-Qaida militants, killing five militants and arresting two others, a provincial police source told Xinhua.
In a separate incident, tribesmen clashed with al-Qaida militants in Ramadi's eastern suburb of Albu Bali, and killed three al-Qaida snipers, the source said.