The Islamic State has killed the top police commander for Anbar province, in an IED attack today in a village that is home to the anti-jihadist Awakening in Ramadi. The assassination is the latest blow to Iraq’s beleaguered security forces in the western province.
General Ahmad Sadak al Dulaymi, Anbar’s police chief, was patrolling the village of Albu Risha when the Islamic State targeted his convoy with two IEDs, or improvised explosive devices, earlier today. The police general and three bodyguards were killed in the attack, according to The New York Times.
Iraqi security forces imposed a province-wide curfew after Sadak was assassinated, All Iraq News reported.
General Sadak is the latest senior security official to be assassinated in Anbar. In early June, an Islamic State suicide bomber killed Mohammed Khamis Abu Risha, a top commander in the Anbar Awakening, an anti al Qaeda and Islamic State tribal force, in an attack in Ramadi. Mohammed Khamis commanded hundreds of Awakening fighters. He was also was the nephew of Ahmed Abu Risha, the leader of the Anbar Awakening and the Albu Risha tribe. [See LWJ report, ISIS suicide bomber kills Anbar Awakening leader.]
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