Bombs kill four Iraqi soldiers

BAGHDAD - Three suicide car bombs driven by foreigners targeted the remote border crossing between Iraq and Jordan Saturday, killing at least four soldiers, Iraqi officials said.

The attack was claimed by the Islamic State group on its twitter account, which said the perpetrators were Belgian, French, and Senegalese.

The statement, which was translated by the U.S.-based SITE Intelligence Group, said the men targeted the dining facility, an army patrol, and the border crossing itself.

Sabah Karhout, head of the local council of the Trebill crossing area, said three soldiers were killed along with Capt. Salah al-Dulaimi, the head of the border post's protection force. Twelve Iraqis were taken across the border and treated for their wounds, said a Jordanian official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to the media.

The attack came as fierce fighting raged on the other side of Anbar province north of the IS-controlled city of Fallujah after an ambush Friday killed an Iraqi general and staff officers.

Militants launched a complex attack Friday involving a bulldozer packed with explosives against a convoy as it approached an army base guarding a lock system on the canal between Lake Tharthar and the Euphrates River. The attack killed Brig. Gen. Hassan Abbas Toufan, Iraqi First Division commander, and three staff officers, plus 10 other soldiers, said Lt. Gen. Mohammed Khalaf al-Dulaimi of the Anbar operations command.

Residents of Fallujah said that Islamic State militants paraded an officer and three soldiers allegedly captured in the fighting through the streets in a pickup truck on Saturday.

Troops, including tanks, have been rushed to the area and were fighting Saturday in this rural region.

Also Saturday, a bomb exploded near an outdoor market in Baghdad's Jisr Diyala suburb, killing four people and wounding 11, police and hospital officials said.