At least 25 Iraqi soldiers were killed when two suicide attackers belonging to Islamic State (IS) terror group targetted a military convoy at Jumailah village of in northern Fallujah.

Police said, yesterday’s bombings came a day after four IS suicide bombers infiltrated an army headquarters west of Baghdad, detonating their explosives and killing an Iraqi general and five soldiers.

Late on Monday night, those bombers struck a regimental headquarters in the Haditha area of Anbar province, killing Staff Brigadier General Ali Aboud, Lieutenant Colonel Farhan Ibrahim and four others. Suicide bombings and other attacks against Iraqi forces and other groups have become increasingly common in Iraq in recent months.