A wave of 15 suicide car bomb attacks by the Islamic State group (IS) against Iraqi security forces was repelled east of the flashpoint city of Ramadi Tuesday with limited casualties, officials said. The onslaught was the latest in a series of attacks by jihadists defending positions in Ramadi, which Iraqi forces, backed by US-led coalition air strikes, are trying to retake. “Aircraft of the international coalition and Iraqi ground forces… repelled a violent attack from Daesh,” police Captain Ahmed al-Dulaimi said, using an Arab acronym for IS. He said 15 cars driven by suicide bombers from central Ramadi towards Husaybah were destroyed. Dulaimi said Iraqi forces controlled the area attacked but that two members of the Anbar police died […]