Islamic State kills 17 Iraqi soldiers with suicide truck bombs near Ramadi

Mourners react during a funeral of a victim who was killed in a bomb attack in Baghdad, during the funeral in Najaf, south of Baghdad, Iraq, May 11, 2016.

IRAQ: Islamic State insurgents killed at least 17 Iraqi soldiers with suicide truck bombs on Thursday in a major attack on government forces that recaptured the western city of Ramadi in December, military officials said.

The jihadist group also killed two policemen and wounded eight others in two suicide bombings in Abu Ghraib outside Baghdad, a day after killing at least 80 people in bombings at an outdoor market and two checkpoints inside the capital.