4 militants killed in western Iran

Iranian security forces on Tuesday killed three militants in a firefight in the country's west, Brigadier General Manouchehr Amanollahi said.

According to the report, posted on the official police website, the firefight took place in a neighborhood in the city of Kermanshah, about 500 kilometers southwest of Tehran.

The police confiscated a Kalashnikov assault rifle and a suicide vest at the site of the clash, the report said. It did not identify the militants, though it called them "takfiris," a derogatory term in both Arabic and Farsi referring to extremist Sunni Muslims — such as members of the Islamic State group — who accuse other Muslims of being infidels.

Later in the day, Kermanshah Gov. Asadollah Razani told the official IRNA news agency that security forceskilled another member of militants he described as "takfiri Daesh".