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ISIS seizes another town in Anbar province
[RUDAW.NET] A tribal leader says Islamic State...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... holy warriors have seized another town in Iraq's western Anbar province, less than a week after capturing the historic provincial capital, Ramadi. Sheikh Rafie al-Fahdawi said Friday that the small town of Husseiba fell overnight. He says police and tribal fighters withdrew after running out of ammunition. Husseiba is about seven kilometers (four miles) east of Ramadi, where ISIS holy warriors routed Iraqi forces in their most significant advance in nearly a year. The Iraqi government plans to launch a counteroffensive in Anbar involving Iranian-backed Shiite militias, which have played a key role in rolling back the ISIS group elsewhere in the country. The presence of the militias could however fuel sectarian tensions in the Sunni province, where anger at the Shiite-led government runs deep. Posted by: Fred 2015-05-23 |
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