Security officials said the incident was fueled by the execution of Munir al-Kobeisi, a civil servant, who killed an ISIS member.

A total of 24 people were killed and 29 others wounded on Saturday in bomb attacks and clashes with Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq’s western province of Anbar, a provincial security source said. Hundreds of residents demonstrated later on that day to protest the killing and clashes broke out when the militants attempted to disperse the protesters.

At least 70 people have been detained by the Islamic State forces on Saturday in a remote town in Iraq, following a very rare street protest laid out by residents after one of their own was executed by the extremists.

In Baghdad on Monday, roadside bombs south and west of the Iraqi capital killed four people, including two policemen, and injured 12, according to police and hospital officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.

Iraqi warplanes struck a house in 7th Nisan district in the IS-held town of Qaim near the Iraqi-Syrian border, destroying the house and killing a number of IS militants, including five of the extremist group leaders, the joint operations command said in a statement without saying when exactly the strike occurred.

A U.S.-led anti-ISIL coalition, he added, “has not acted to save those being held by the militant group from a possible massacre”. No details on what happened to Afar have been reported.

Earlier this month, Islamic State group abductced 200 civilians in Syria’s Homs province. Many have fled, while more than 800 are still missing.