Iraqi air strikes on Saturday killed nine suspected “terrorists” implicated in a deadly Islamic State group attack on an army base earlier this month, the military said. The 21 January attack, which killed 11 soldiers in Hawi al-Azim in the eastern province of Diyala, was the deadliest claimed by the jihadists in Iraq this year. In a statement released late Saturday, the military said it had “identified the exact whereabouts in Hawi al-Azim of the terrorist group which perpetrated this criminal act”. “Three precision strikes by Iraqi F-16s have so far killed nine terrorist elements,” the state…