IS fighters send gunboat attack

After U.S. launched airstrikes against Sunni fighters in Iraq over the weekend, to stop militants from seizing an important dam on the Euphrates River, a source said Islamic State fighters took a counter attack by killing 17 people and wounding 54 at a riverside town north of Baghdad on Monday with gunboats and a car bomb.

A private firm recently released a probe regarding arms trafficking documented small arms and rockets confiscated from ISIS are allegedly provided to other combatants by Saudi Arabia and the United States.

Syrian militants claimed weapons provided to them by foreign supporters have been captured by ISIS or sold or traded to ISIS by corrupt members of the rebel ranks.

The attack on Dhuluiya, around 70 km from the capital, was carried out before dawn and continued for two hours before the militants were pushed back, the source said.

The source confirmed majority of the total number of the death caused by the attack was civilians and Iraqi forces. Most of the casualties were rooted by the car bomb, which struck a market.

And a part of a belt of Sunni Muslim towns north of Baghdad, Dhuluiya, where the hardline Sunni Muslim Islamic State has managed to wrestle some control, often aligns with local armed force who disbelieves the Shi'ite-led government.

IS fighters took advantage of the commotion in Iraq to forcibly become the dominant power among Sunnis.

Obama sent air strikes in northern Iraq last August as Kurdish-controlled territory fell to the Islamic State and the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan looked in danger. Consequently, Islamic State fighters have since spread to central region of Iraq.