An unidentified source toldthe Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency the extremist group sent six “suicide vehicles” followed by fighters wearing explosive belts to an Iraqi compound in north Ramadi on Friday.
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He says families are still trapped in the Islamic State-held areas of the city, where they are being used as human shields.
“The government will need to control Fallujah before Mosul”, Jabbar Al Yawar, secretary-general of the peshmerga – the forces of the Kurdish regional government fighting Daesh in northern Iraq – told Al Hadath TV.
BAGHDAD (AP) – Islamic State group militants continue to launch a series of counterattacks against Iraqi government forces on the edges of the western city of Ramadi days after the militant group was driven out of the city center, according to the U.S.-led coalition.
The great significance of this success in the grander war against the Islamic State can not be understated. “Every house is potentially booby-trapped and must be checked”. It was badly damaged in two offensives by USA forces against al Qaeda insurgents in 2004.
Sabah Karhot, the head of Anbar’s provincial council, said as much as 80 percent of Ramadi has been destroyed in the battles.
On Monday, Iraqi forces backed by U.S.-led airstrikes drove the militants out of the city center.
Shiite-Sunni relations will determine Iraq’s fate in the end.
The fighters have imposed an ultra-hardline version of Sunni Islam disavowed by all major Sunni authorities, and carried out mass killings and rapes. In the opinion of another Iraqi soldier, the army is making good grounds and the moral is high. They chose to make a run for it. We got in touch with each other and left all together at seven in the morning.
The woman and her family would have left sooner, but ISIS was threatening to kill anyone who tried to escape. “We ran for about 10 minutes”. He described some of them as senior local leaders.
The group killed the men after taking them prisoner at the base however only 400 bodies have been found since.
“I just want my father to come back to us”.
Map of Iraq locating the Speicher military base, where Islamic State attacked trainee police officer … More than 52 families had been rescued so far in the city, he said. It can also be used to clear mines and other hidden explosives. “I didn’t see it, but I heard about it”. “They saved us”, the man said before breaking into tears.
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He said they were detained on Thursday and would be interrogated. This time, instead of running away, “they incurred huge losses, and they didn’t flinch”.
