Habbaniyah: The Islamic State group carried out an attack on an Iraqi border guard position near Jordan yesterday, killing at least 15 guards, officials said.
"Daesh launched an attack with a suicide car bomb and gunmen on the 2nd border guard regiment near Trebil," an officer in the border guard said, using an Arabic acronym for IS. "The attack came from several directions and killed 15 border guards, including two officers," he said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The border with Jordan lies in Anbar, a vast western province where IS fighters have lost most of their urban strongholds but continue to harass government forces.
