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BAGHDAD: At least nine security officials were killed and three others injured Saturday in Islamic State bomb attacks in west of Mosul, police told Anadolu Agency.
Iraqi security official Safa al-Behadli told Anadolu Agency that IS detonated four bomb-laden vehicles at a location where the police forces were stationed in Mosul's west side.
He said that two military vehicles were also destroyed in the attacks.
In October, the Iraqi army -- backed by U.S.-led coalition airstrikes and local allies on the ground -- began a wide-ranging operation to retake Mosul, Islast bastion in northern Iraq, which the militant group overran in 2014.
