Iraq Says Defeats ISIS Infiltration Near Ramadi, Several Dead

ISIS militants seized areas around Ramadi, west of Baghdad, on Wednesday in an apparent attempt at a diversion from offensives on the terrorist group’s last Iraqi footholds but were swiftly defeated, security sources said.

The infiltrators briefly occupied three areas near the city, which is the capital of Anbar province, long a bastion of insurgency, the sources said.

But after several hours of heavy fighting in which militants used suicide car bombs, mortars and machine guns, all three areas were retaken.

“The security forces and the…