Blasts kill 25 in Iraq town

Three suicide car bomb attacks against offices in a Kurdish-controlled Iraqi town killed at least 25 people yesterday, most of them Kurdish forces veterans volunteering to re-enlist, officials said.

The Islamic State jihadist group claimed the attack via affiliated Twitter accounts, saying the three suicide bombers were from Germany, Saudi Arabia and Turkey.

Meanwhile, a roadside bomb yesterday killed the police chief of Iraq's battleground province of Anbar, officials said, after the Pentagon expressed concern about a renewed offensive by jihadists in the area.

The attack came near the provincial capital of Ramadi, one of the few areas between Baghdad and the Syrian border not controlled by fighters loyal to the Islamic State group, provincial and police officials said.