Clashes near Ramadi kill 11 Iraq police: Officer

24 others wounded in the clashes.

RAMADI: Clashes between militants and Iraqi security forces near Anbar provincial capital Ramadi killed 11 police and wounded 24, an officer and a doctor said on Friday.

The fighting near Ramadi, a city west of Baghdad where anti-government fighters have held shifting areas since the beginning of the year, began Thursday afternoon and continued into Friday.