65 killed in clashes, bomb attacks in Iraq

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Baghdad, Jan 25 (IANS) At least 56 people were killed in clashes between security forces and Islamic State (IS) militants across Iraq, while nine people were killed in bomb attacks targeting restaurants in the capital Baghdad Sunday, security sources said. In Iraq's Diyala province, the security forces backed by Shia militiamen and aircrafts retook control of eight villages in the rural area of the volatile town of Maqdadiyah, some 100 km **rtheast of Baghdad, after fierce clashes with the IS, which left at least 35 members of the Sunni radical group killed, an interior ministry statement said.

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