REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, RAMADI -- Iraqi security forces on Saturday continued their fighting against the Islamic State (IS/ISIS) militants in the western Anbar province, while the country's air strikes killed 28 IS militants, including senior leaders, security sources and official television said.

In Anbar province, the security forces and allied militias known as Hashd Shaabi, or Popular Mobilization, moved closer to the IS-held provincial capital city of Ramadi, some 110 km west of Baghdad, and seized the provincial traffic police headquarters after fierce clashes with the IS militants, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

The troops also advanced from another route in south of Ramadi, when they recaptured the village of Albu Jabir, just south of Ramadi after clashes with the IS militants who fled their positions in the village and withdrew towards the city, the source said.

Also in the province, dozens of IS militants and eight suicide car bombs attacked a military base in al-Shiha area near the militant-seized town of Garma, just east of the city of Fallujah, some 50 km west of Baghdad, leaving at least 15 security members and Hashd Shaabi fighters killed and some 22 others wounded, he said.

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