BBC Online :A suicide bombing by so-called Islamic State militants the Iraqi city of Ramadi has killed two army commanders and three other people, officials say.Gen Abdel Rahman Abu Ragheef was deputy commander of operations in the strategically important province of Anbar, while Brig Safeen Abdel Majeed was a divisional commander. The bombing happened in the Jerayshi area. The bomb went off as the army intercepted an explosives-laden vehicle which they believed was targeting them, Brig Gen Yahya Rasool told state TV.At least 10 others were wounded in the blast, he said. IS said it had carried out the attack.Image caption Iraqi forces are trying to retake control of Ramadi from Islamic StateThe military and the police are leading the battle to recapture Ramadi, supported by Shia militias, Sunni tribal fighters and US-led coalition air strikes.IS captured the city in May – one in a series of embarrassing defeats inflicted upon Iraqi forces over the last year – and thousands of civilians fled. The BBC’s Jim Muir in Beirut says government forces have made little progress in their efforts to recapture the city, which remains firmly in the militants’ hands.The deaths of the two senior army commanders have caused a stir in Baghdad – where numerous political figures paid tribute to them – and will do nothing to improve the morale of state forces, our correspondent says.
