The Islamic State (IS) group has said that two Frenchmen were behind a pair of suicide bombings that targeted Sunni and Shiite militias in western Iraq, the jihadist website monitoring group SITE said Friday, reports FRANCE 24.
Furat Province, a division of the IS group in western Iraq, made the announcement on jihadist forums and Twitter, said SITE. It named the bombers as Abu Maryam al Faransi and Abu Abdul Aziz al Faransi – "al-Faransi" signifying a person from France in Arabic.
The IS group, which does not specify when the bombings were carried out, said that "dozens of enemies were killed and wounded” in the two attacks near the city of Haditha, about 240 km northwest of Baghdad.
"Two knights of the Islamic state” detonated two trucks “packed with tons of explosives” in the attacks, said the militants.
"Brother Abu Maryam al Faransi targeted a headquarters" and "Abu Abdul Aziz al Faransi (...) followed him with a second truck, to target barracks of the apostates," said the forum post quoted by SITE, which also carried photographs of the two men.