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At least 18 people were killed, and 13 more were wounded in

recent violence:

Twelve

militants were killed during a large-scale, anti-ISIS operations

in the Hamrin Mountains.

Near Samarra, one

militiaman was killed and two more were wounded during a small arms attack.

As security personnel looked for the assailants, they came under fire as well. Three more

were killed, and another was wounded.

In Multaqa, a roadside bomb killed

a child and wounded five others.

A farmer

was killed in a blast near Abbara.

A bomb in Amiriyat al-Fallujah wounded two

people. Two

policemen were wounded by a second blast when they arrived to assist the

victims.

An old landmine seriously wounded

a shepherd in Sheikh Saad district near the Iran border. The mine

was leftover from the Iran-Iraq War and may have been disinterred by recent

flooding.

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