They stay in close verbal touch with Iraqis counterparts who are out on the battlefield and receive information that is then “fused” with other data, from sources such as drones and satellites, to identify moving Islamic State targets, he said at a briefing to journalists a fortnight ago.
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In his telephone conversation, the Un chief conveyed the premier the concern for the recent kidnapping of a group of citizens from Qatar in Iraqi territory, including children. They flinched as explosions could be heard in the distance. Daniel Byman, an American analyst of Islamic extremist movements, told the New York Timesyesterday that the Anbar tribes “want a high degree of independence, but they also want to be on the side of the winners”.
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He was rushed to New York Hospital in “traumatic arrest” at about 11:54 p.m, an FDNY spokesman said. One resident named Alberto said there have been issues in the past with the elevator.
That view was shared by Abi Ali, who saw Baghdadi’s threatening of Jews and Israel as a “great indicator of the trouble Islamic State is in”. Bloody people came upon us, people that don’t know the meaning of humanity.
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Pakistan, which is said to have political sway over the militant group, held historic talks in July 2015. Apparently a restaurant has been attacked”, interior ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqqi said.
The woman said most of the ISIS fighters in Ramadi either fled or were killed as the army moved in.
The woman is among the tens of thousands of people who have left the city during the devastating, months-long effort to snatch it back from the clutches of ISIS.
“The government will need to control Falluja before Mosul”, said Jabbar al-Yawar, secretary general of the peshmerga, the forces of the Kurdish regional government fighting Islamic State in northern Iraq, in an interview to al-Hadath TV.
The US-led coalition yesterday said about 700 IS militants are suspected to be hiding in the centre and eastern outskirts of Ramadi days after Iraqi forces claimed victory over the militants in the western city, reports Reuters.
Troops from Iraq’s 76th Brigade had helped ring Ramadi, clearing hidden bombs and pinned down Islamic State fighters using mortar fire, he said. Islamic State militants have drawn heavily on alienated Sunnis for support, but many Sunnis say they have been trapped between IS brutality and death threats from the government-backed Shi’ite militias.
A key part of the strategy for the government is to put Ramadi in the hands of local Sunni tribal figures, an echo of the 2006-2007 “surge” campaign by USA forces at the height of the 2003-2011 US war in Iraq, in which Washington secured the help of Sunni tribes against a precursor of Islamic State.
Spokesman for the Iraqi counter- terrorism forces Sabah Nomani denied in a call with Al-Jazeera that Daesh have full control over any of the city’s neighbourhoods, but explained that the group continues to control some zones in almost 90 percent of the city.
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Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Wednesday ordered the immediate formation of a high-level committee including the Anbar governor and senior federal government officials to stabilize and rebuild Ramadi.
