IS In Deadly Gunboat Attack On Riverside Town

Islamic State fighters have reportedly attacked an Iraqi riverside town with gunboats and car bombs, killing at least 10 people and wounding 54.

The attack on Dhuluiya, around 45 miles (70km) from Baghdad, started before dawn and lasted for about two hours until the IS militants were pushed back, a security source told Reuters.

Two suicide bombers - apparently targeting a meeting between security forces and Sunni militiamen - detonated car bombs in the town, police and medical sources told AFP.

At least one drove his explosives-packed Humvee into a gathering of a major Sunni tribe, the al Jabour.

IS militants struck in Dhuluiya, north of Baghdad

Al Jabour fighters have sided with Iraqi forces in the battle against IS, an al Qaeda breakaway group previously known as ISIS.

The bombings were followed by a full-scale offensive by the militants, which narrowly failed to take the town after fierce fighting.

Those killed in the attack - one of the largest of its kind - included civilians and Iraqi forces.

A Kurdish fighter with a rocket launcher in northern Iraq

There was no immediate claim for the attack, but suicide bombings are almost exclusively carried out by Sunni extremists, including IS jihadists, who spearheaded a major offensive that has overrun swathes of territory since it was launched in June.

Dhuluiya is part of a belt of Sunni Muslim towns north of Baghdad where the hardline Sunni group has managed to gain some control, often aligning with local militia who distrust the Shia-led government in the capital.

The initial militant onslaught swept security forces aside, but Baghdad won its first major victory of the conflict in August when federal troops, Shia militiamen and Kurdish fighters broke the 11-week jihadist siege of the town of Amerli.

A Kurdish peshmerga fighter holds a front-line position in Khazer

Barack Obama ordered airstrikes in northern Iraq last month as Kurdish-controlled territory fell to the Islamic State, and Irbil - the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan - looked in danger.

US strikes have since targeted IS in other parts of the country - most recently the Haditha Dam area in western Iraq - and Mr Obama is expected to lay out his strategy for defeating the extremists on Wednesday.

The US President won broad support for an international coalition against IS at the Nato summit in Wales - but the 28 member countries stopped short of pledging to join a combat mission in Iraq and Syria.

Public opinion in the West has shifted towards doing more to tackle IS since gruesome videos appeared showing jihadists beheading two US journalists and threatening to kill a British hostage.

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